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Everything is already here…
It’s a new moon, a good time to start the blog with a new face… minimum like the moon. I just finished a Year-long Enneagram Certification Program. I feel ripe after a long season of learning. Our class committed to a daily practice of conscious breathing to deepen attention to three areas: body, heart and head.…
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We were hit hard by a hurricane at the end of August and are still reeling from its effects. We lost the roof over the kitchen veranda which covers the major part of the house and we lost the roof over the veranda of the second floor and also the roof of our yellow Hummer…
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Beginning again…
It’s been 4 years since I’ve posted. Life has been full of changes but we’re still moving in “a long obedience in the same direction”. Slow living has a lot to teach. Commitment to a personal evolution that expands and carries me deeper is unknown territory. I don’t know where I am going but I…
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Wondering the Grand Canyon
This week I have literally stood on the edge of the world, my self just a miniscule particle-part of the vastness of time, force, beauty, death and life. Such a wonder, the Grand Canyon! It took 5 million years for what we see on the surface and 2 billion years of earth history at the…
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Deep calls to deep – a psalm
Carve me deeply. Make of me a canyon where your life moves. Let it be known God was here, is here still in this scoured place, purified for genesis, seeding creation, cycling through seasons, making all things new by ancient forces: one a cataclysmic undoing the other a steady, slow polishing. Shape me by the tenacity…
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Ava
Our little dog died during the night. Her name was Ava. We do not know the cause of her sudden death, possibly a poisonous bite. We tried everything to save her but she went quickly. Yesterday she woke up with the exuberant energy of a girl on Christmas morning. She played with the other larger…
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The ark … the inside story
I’ve been wondering about Noah’s ark. It occurs to me that our home is an ark of sorts during the tropical storms of the rainy seasons – Wally’s ark! We head for the house when it rains. The dogs make a bee line, anxious to have an excuse to be inside. Even the varmints: mice,…
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Counter-culture
The first thing I managed to do after summer school was fall down the stairs. I bonked my head, back and elbow hard enough to be a gimp for a week. Not the form of rest I had in mind… So much for my plans. Life happens and Who’s to say that’s not part of…
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School’s end, begin again…
Today was the final day of summer school. Our theme was Ecology and Me! The week was full-isimo! The children were good, enthusiastic and sweet. This evening we had an awards ceremony with 100 children and their families attending. My heart felt full looking out at those eager faces, feeling the newness of connections that…
