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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 the sound of a violin. Garlic
is [...]

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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 is wide
And it’s too [...]

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We’ve all had them – challenges and circumstances that leave their unforgettable impact and change us forever.  Abraham aptly terms it: the contrast.
I would like to believe that we have chosen the contrast on some level before we ever fully emerged into these bodies.  I don’t believe we chose the specifics of it so much [...]

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We celebrate freedom from Great Britain today – yet wherever we live, whoever we are, no matter our circumstances we possess an inner freedom that can never be taken from any of us.  And that freedom is the freedom to choose who we are and how we show up in this world.  Nick Vujicic speaks [...]

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Make me sweet again
fragrant and fresh and wild
and thankful for any small event
~Rumi~

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as twilight begins
and darkness descends
light pours into small spaces
and I am tossed out into the violet night
half remembering now the questions I asked:
what’s it like in that other realm?
and
will I be alone?
answers drift in from faraway places
and hang like forbidden fruit
words and images impossible to translate
relief comes as the first blush of morning arrives
wind strokes [...]

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The thing I like most about waking up in the middle of the night is choosing then to spend time consciously creating my next day.  Last night laying there, I thought about my day and how I would like to feel during the day.  I began to breathe consciously and then silently say: I [...]

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Dance Tribute

Excerpts from cnn.com:
CEBU, Philippines (CNN) — Amid the tropical heat of a Philippine prison, convicted murderers, rapists and drug dealers on Saturday paid tribute to Michael Jackson with a reprise of their YouTube dance hit, “Thriller.”
A rendition of Jackson’s 1980s smash hit by prisoners at the Cebu Detention and Rehabilitation Center [...]

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May the light at the core of your being illuminate the world…

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This side of heaven, where do you suppose this side of heaven is?
“It’s not a place you can get to by a boat or a train. It’s far, far away.
Behind the moon, beyond the rain.”
So said the rubyslipper-ed one just before she sung that unforgettable
song: Over the Rainbow.
Behind the moon, beyond the rain…is it [...]

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