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Image Locale “Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight.” ~Mary Oliver~ What do you love?  This was a question from the powerful weekly question.  G. K. Chesterton wrote: praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.  And I say — yes, yes, it totally could be! [...]

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It was the mid 1980s and for the sum total of one evening I thought I was in love with him.  But most of the time we were just very good friends.  His name was Stan Easton. I was in nursing school.  My schedule was hectic and beyond busy.  Stan called one day.  I wasn’t [...]

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Image Locale Praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul. An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.  An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost. Thanks are the highest form of thought.  Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. …we are made [...]

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I See You

I’ve put a couple of videos on this blog before that had me tearing up.  By the time I was done watching this one, I was bawling for breakfast.  Oh my, the heart just never forgets and it’s not just humans who have this beautiful capacity to love.  This video illustrates the many ways we [...]

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Heart Home

It’s a very unlikely duo in this short video, illustrating how the heart knows no bounds.  Mind can take us somewhere else, but the heart will always lead us home.

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My inner Bethie jumped up and down with excitement when I decided to post the Wisdom of the Moody Blues.  Yay, it’s a Moody Blues love fest!  I’ve loved this musical group for eons and was able to see them in concert twice.  First when they were at the height of their career and again [...]

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Image Locale Imagine a world where “not one illusion is accorded faith” If it isn’t the voice of strength, if it isn’t the voice of love, if it isn’t the voice of confidence, it is the voice of illusion. Imagine according your faith only to the voice of strength, love and confidence. Imagine withdrawing your [...]

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“Pain Is Inevitable. Suffering is Optional.”  (Zen Aphorism) It’s a very famous quote that I’ve heard many, many times but only recently began to get a sense of what I think it really means.  Life happens, stuff happens — this is inevitable and responding with pure, genuine, heart felt pain is what is natural.  Or [...]

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Image Locale Here is another “found” poem I have created.  This time I’ve brought Rumi and Rilke together.  No small task!  Great poets they were but not contemporaries as are Mary Oliver and Wendell Berry in my previous found poem.  This particular found poem starts with two lines from a Rumi poem and then alternates [...]

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I’ve been thinking lately that night dreams are my final frontier in consciousness.  They fascinate me and I wonder if they might be a link for us between the physical world and the non-physical, Spirit world.  Or as Susie called it in The Lovely Bones, the Inbetween. I dream every night vividly.  Last night before [...]

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