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Heart Songs

There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart … Pursue those. ~Anonymous~ What catches your heart today? What if you did something every day which catches your heart and makes your heart sing? What if you set aside time for just that every day? [...]

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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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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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From here on out, this blog will be in re-runs.  There will be a continual, unending loop of re-posts.  It will be boring, repetitious and worse yet, time will elongate during this period and appear to slow down.  Painfully so. I’m just kidding!  My point and I do have one, she says snarkily, is that [...]

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Several years ago one of my beloved cats died.  Her name was Nellie and she lived to be 21 years old.  She had the odd habit of eating paper and perhaps that added to her longevity :).  I’ll never know for certain.  One day I had to send my daughter to school with a note: [...]

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I want to linger inside the silence void of sound and distraction long enough to see for myself that love’s only obstacle fear, really is just a paper dragon I want to let every barrier to love fall away I want to liberate what sleeps within me and awake resplendent in all that remains: your [...]

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it’s nice to know that when I’m feeling low I can come visit my own blog and laugh and cry and be soothed find hope and remember it’s nice to know I’ve left a well marked trail it’s lighted, too and filled with my favorite things it’s nice to know others have come here and [...]

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Litany~Billy Collins

You are the bread and the knife, The crystal goblet and the wine. Jacques Crickillon You are the bread and the knife, the crystal goblet and the wine. You are the dew on the morning grass, and the burning wheel of the sun. You are the white apron of the baker and the marsh birds [...]

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I have often heard it said: take time to smell the roses.  Take time is an interesting phrase, isn’t it?  As if we could take it, steal it, lose it or the many other things we associate with “time”. And actually I digress because what I really want to talk about is not the roses [...]

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