Monthly Archives: April 2016
Have you ever stood still and listened to snow melt among the pines?
And the Whisper from a friend, also listening, “The sound of wonder.“
We live in a messy world. Neurobiologists say our brains are Velcro when it comes to negative stuff – bam. Stuck forever. Brains are like Teflon when it comes to good stuff – wheeee. Flies right off. Part of that is evolution…..
Atlas shrugged. Conniving Sisyphus was condemned to pushing a boulder uphill only to watch it roll back. Icarus, full of pride, flew too close to the sun and was destroyed. Sometimes there is a fine line between boldness and complacency. Finding the middle path can be treacherous.
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Sweet Hands of Life I have no question. I have no request. Just sitting in your gentleness and beauty. That’s all. Namaste.
Ask me if I remembered to get my coffee, turned the furnace down, put the hearing aids in, or remembered what I came to get at the store….hmmmmm you might get a blank expression. Maybe not so much blank as it is uuuuuhhhhhhhhhh. Yet, ask…..
Life presents choices. I’ve found choices sometimes leave ashes. And then comes the whisper, “what is to give light must endure burning.” I touch the ashes and feel life. A heart beat. Perhaps ashes I may not have chosen to carry their urn. But there they…..
A difficult week with such tender luminous slivers of hope threaded between the moments. Saturday. A day for the hobbit to be in nature’s sanctuary and heal. But no, no morning walk. Waiting for workmen who promised they’d be here. …..
Hello.
In a world where texts, emails, breaking news, voice mails and phone calls come hurling in within warning, I thought of my Wise Sisters. Three trees that have literally and spiritually held me up and grounded me for several years……
Yesterday an invitation of awe. Today, oh today, a reminder to not “move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move” ~ Osho.
Rick Hanson notes that our brains are stuck…..
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