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Spiritual Boot Camp
I signed up. I must have. This is what some days look like at spiritual boot camp. There is something so right on about the recognition that it is now, not in the summer, not after I stop working, not...
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The Angry and Peaceful Wolves of Parenting
Parenting is not easy. I don’t know what I am doing. The Angry Wolf of this job says, “I will not tolerate this behavior.” The Angry Wolf says, “My Way or the Highway.” The Angry Wolf lives in fear...
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There Are No Shoulds
My mother and I are different in many surface ways, and if there were a Match.com for mother/daughter relationships, we might not even be paired. But of course the wisdom of the universe understands...
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Rough Morning – Vent – Beauty Enters Again
Oh God, save me the ugliness of my own pity party this morning. My mind state is my own though in this moment, I do shake my head in wonder at the journey I’ve chosen for myself. I wonder at the...
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We Are All Skywalkers
My brave friend Sheila gifted this to me today. Halfway through my watching, I realized I wasn’t breathing. I am a skywalker, bravely out on that wing with the earth fall ever present beneath me,...
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three wee epiphanies
1. the now moment is such a pregnant place the air fairly sizzles 2. consciousness does not always speak in a gentle voice. sometimes, it flows with a firmness, sometimes it flows with a strong...
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Middle Path Dance
Everything I write here is a lie. And everything I write is true, in the moment I write it. My head gets stuck on this…but my heart understands the flow of capturing words that seem to represent the...
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not so smart
What I thought was one thing, turns out to be another. Turns out I’m not so smart. (grin) I’m right in the middle of another toggle switch moment of realization and change, an oh no, not this! sort of...
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no one is alone
It got pretty rough going there for a while. In fact, I think that this latest rough patch is what started me blogging to begin with in November – I was in a tough spot and I had no idea what to do....
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do we dare?
when tromping through the thorny fields, one wears heavy boots and impenetrable pants; it only makes sense - then suddenly one can find oneself on the beach still in protective gear for the yesterday...
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the art of leaving the nests
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. Pema Chodron When holding on to the sticks of my little nest and refusing to fly on, the weather can...
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rise and shine
My daughters still do not wake themselves for school. I go in, as they sleep through their alarms, and gently, or sometimes not so gently, prod them back into consciousness. It won’t be long,...
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a happening
Can we every convey the surreality of the overlapping patterns of this experience here in a body? In the 60′s, there was a theatre form called happenings. A professor described this movement to our...
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a worm on cement in the sun
In november when I started this blog experiment, I was able to point through words to the pain that was playing out in my daughter’s heart. I didn’t have solutions; I didn’t know what was going to...
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It appears as if an explosion has occurred in my daughter’s bedroom
and this too shall pass. Life is a messy endeavor. Humor helps. Want to laugh with me? The poor girl. I wouldn’t want to face this mess! Her nature it seems is to drop things as she goes; she has yet...
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driving lessons
The body is a thing itself which wishes to survive. We might not always imagine this so - but try getting in the car with a new driver. Watch yourself tighten and grip any solid thing you can find....
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to be or not to be solid
My first guest blogger: Eden It is 12:30 am. Cookies for a class something or other are out of the oven. We rise at 5:30 for school. We have ridden through waves of sillies, grumpies, hostilities,...
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mirror
I am just letting the words fly with misspellings, lower case errors, run-on sentences, all sorts of mess. I am not a finished product, but one feeling her way along the path. There is a tendency to...
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yen and yang, my daughters
If you get too close to the mirror, your eyes will cross. Of course I KNOW my girls, but somehow, separation helps me to actually see them. And I see myself. Things that come in packages of two often...
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parenting my own delinquency
I am thinking about Achilles today. What if I had the story wrong? What if an Achilles’ heel does not point to a spot of weakness but instead a spot of strength? How could one see it like this when...
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