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Archive for July, 2009

What Is Real?

The Velveteen Rabbit – I read this book to my son the other day and bawled like a baby.  No offense intended to you babies out there, ok?  I could hardly believe I had this book all these years and had never actually read it in its entirety.  About three quarters of the way through [...]

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Short answer: you don’t. The question is not how do you live with mistakes. It’s: how do you live with courage? How do you live with stepping out on a limb? How do you live with taking risks? How do you live with moving out of your safety zone? How do you live with the [...]

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{“Surrendering” by Freydoon Rassouli} “You cannot wake yourself. You can let yourself be awakened.” ~A Course in Miracles I like the emphasis here on letting.  Not forcing but allowing. And then an interesting synonym for “let” is: sit still for.  This is to suggest that to let something come about requires no action on our [...]

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Image Locale In a world filled with limitless possibilities, why do we sometimes choose limitation?  Why, indeed.  As conscious creators we paint the canvas and sometimes paint ourselves into a corner of limitation.  We become attached to the way we think things ought to be and feel obliged to give our attention to whatever doesn’t [...]

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like the one about the man who walked down the street & turned into a drugstore. There was some secret in the moment of that turning—when he has one thing, became another— that I return to again & again. The day she stopped being grandma and turned into that madwoman. The day my sister stopped [...]

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Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do, you will be certain to find something you have never seen before. -Alexander Graham Bell What an interesting quote on the virtues of an adventuresome spirit.  I was pondering if Abraham’s definition of contrast, or what feels like unwanted events, [...]

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I hand picked this one of inspirational quotes set to a very special song.

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You find yourself on a street you’ve never walked, in the town you grew up in and came back to. The street is a ribbon on a gift you’ve never opened. You walk the street and a waft of jasmine fills you, a white cat crosses your path, and from an open window you hear [...]

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How I Make Music

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It’s like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has it’s song. So I stay in the moment and listen. What I hear is never the same. A walk through the woods brings a [...]

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Dedicated to Kitty C. who turned me onto these poetic lyrics from the Piano Man… Album Cover by Christie Brinkley In the middle of the night I go walking in my sleep From the Mountains of Faith To the river so deep I must be lookin’ for something Something sacred I lost But the river [...]

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