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Post-cynical seer = When both sides of a paradox lay down their opinions and realize they're standing on common ground, one's persepctive becomes universal...
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Insomnia: relentlessly awake; becoming aware; writing it through ...
Every day lived in yoke to a habit is an opportunity to unravel one more knot in its becoming. Tonight, while my beloved watched a movie, I lay in bed with the cats and read. At about 10:40, he began his bedtime routine and asked me, with a little am...
Things come together ...
I love how synchronicity happens. Lately, I've been thinking about my almost nullified appetite. Food? -- meh! Couldn't care less. I need an appetite activation.Today, I met with a psychiatrist for a one-shot, insurance-mandated consult.Every time I ...
Further to "God talk" ...
... I just found this quotation:I’m not seeking anything. I’m done. There’s nothing more to be sought. And yet ...there is this ongoing process of clarification, or embodiment, or deepening ...~Stephen Bodian~...
I have the attention span of half a gnat today ...
"Poof", by Josh Billings... so I'm just going to open my "What makes me happy?" book and offer some jottings from 1990 to now about what I'm grateful for.I have about 40 blog posts that are in various states of readiness; all peter out at some point ...
Make of the mind a giving thing ...
... a cup,a palm of lightstreamingkissesin other wordsbe calmbe kind...
Trauma complicates everything, doesn't it?
Trauma pushes every button, sets off every alarm, forces every organic system into overdrive. There's so much happening all at once that a person's resilience can be ruptured.Is it possible to undo all the cumulative damage that trauma does? I don't ...
On purpose ...
It is because most people have not found their purpose and function that they experience painful disharmony within, and thus the body of humanity is headed for chaos. Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission; while the world per...
From a poem called "Reverence" ...
A good horse runs even at the shadow of the whip.But we are not good horses.We bolt. We stand still in bad weather.We rely on things we know are unreliable,it feels so good just to rely.(Sarah Manguson, from "Reverence")The entire poem is here: http:...
A moment of repose amid change upon change ...
Imagine a great, sturdy tree ... an elder of the forest. Imagine the core of that tree, and the ring-circles fanning away from the heart, steeped through with sap no matter the season. The circles are signs of gradual, evolutionary change ... slow-mo...
After a good, long sleep last night ...
... I awoke to think, "Routine is a good thing." There's a clarity to morning, to the spaciousness of a mind that has just left dreaming, to a body that has just begun to move through its day. Bless both the unthinking and the mindful movements of mo...
Found: prayer within a poem ...
I'm not feeling too articulate these days ... but I have fallen in love with the poetry of Philip Schultz. I was browsing the poetry section of my fave bookstore and spied a slim, dusky aqua spine titled... oh my, I thought, and brought the volume fo...
Further to faith ... and Spring ... and e.e. cummings ... and Rilke ...
Today is that Just-spring day when the world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful and every being who is branched and stemmed is dotty with green far and wee ...... the day that I race to every window and sniff deep every sight ...Here is the unsayab...
For all of us, when we are lost in a wasteland ...
Svasti posted a heartrending piece today ("Bottomed out") on her blog (http://svasti.wordpress.com/) that has moved me to write ... She writes from a place I recognize ... a place where the heart is squeezed shut and the mind shuts down the soul ... ...
My religion includes this ...
I left the Church in 1984 and Christianity soon after that. The example of Jesus, however, chases me down to my crux at least once a day; within that model of relational conduct is where I aspire to live....
Lately, these are my mantras ...
Action is the antidote to despair.(Joan Baez / Plato)Housework is holy ...(Me Wend ... my evermost beloved friend of nearly 25 years, who has been an ancestor for nearly two years now ... )...
Having died, and bloomed ... and died, and bloomed ...
I'm really absorbing through the stupor, on this first day after Roo's death, Thomas Merton's prayer, "I have no idea where I am going ..." (Gulp) ... but yesterday, as G~ and I were walking toward our home after being with Roo and Dr. B~, my eyes fe...
Finally ... an understanding of self-injury that makes sense.
... like a shattered knee or a scratched cornea, relationship ruptures deliver agony. Most people say that no pain is greater than losing someone they love ... Psychiatrists often see people who deliberately injure themselves in minor but stinging wa...
SPRING!
Nothing heals like compassion ...
Somewhere there is a basketthat contains all of our failures.It is a big basket. It wants to knowwhat to do with these.Mercy has no use for them.(Stephen Levine, from "There is an elemental love")Sculpture: Heather Cole, "Compassion" ... http://heath...
Back to the ABCs, again ... and again ... and again ...
About twenty years ago, I earned a basic certification in First Aid. One of the "mantras" of injury assessment that we learned was a particular ABC: Alive, Breathing, Conscious. Everything in First Aid starts with that, if I recall correctly ...... a...
Somehow, despite all, I believe this ...
Beauty will save the world.(Fyodor Dostoyevsky) (Photo: artist unknown)...
Taking into our hearts what we are bound to lose ...
... which is everyone, and everything.One day.We will all die on our one day ...If you imagine ahead, to your one day, how will you live it before it is done?Can you see, now, given who you are, who you choose to be, and how you choose to act in the ...
Faith in love
I've decided that if I have faith in anything, it lies in our mammalian ability to bond and to love. There isn't any other force on this earth that can get into and through us like love does; as Jeanette Winterson wrote, "Love changes molecular struc...
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