Practicing Peace Imagine this long awaited New Year opening up before you as the blank pages of a journal. And, imagine the story that could unfold across the pages of the new year if you…and I…and each of us…many of us…even most of us set an intention of Practicing Peace on Purpose. [...]
Right, Left, and Center: Liminal Space Liminal Spaces are transitional or transformational spaces. They are waiting areas between one point in space and the next. (Dictionary) We as a nation are hanging in this liminal space. The presidential election has been held. In the minds of many Americans, it is completed. In [...]
Liminal Spaces “The very vulnerability and openness of liminal space allows room for something genuinely new to happen. We are empty and receptive…erased tablets waiting for new words. Liminal space is where we are most teachable, because we are most humbled.” Richard Rohr We are living in [...]
Ode To A Georgia Spring In Springtime there the dogwood rides a cavalry in white. And red-bud captains scarlet cloaked are flanked on left and right. ‘Tis fleetingly those flowered troops so arrogant-so gay ride up and ore the Georgian hills and suddenly away. James D. McCollum "Something dies, but something [...]
Savoring The Silence We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet. WB Yeats Collectively we share this Corona Virus crisis. COVID19. Most of us are conscientiously [...]
When Air Becomes Breath In his inspiring memoir, When Breath Becomes Air, brilliant neurosurgeon resident, Paul Kalinthi, tracks his existential, spiritual, and physical journey through life into death. Death- that point in time when the breath that once sustained life becomes, once again, only air. In life, the opposite is true. What [...]
In Solidarity with the Tree of Life “But, love has to be stronger than hate or there is no future for us.” Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale No! No! Not again. Yes. Once again, we are greeted with the news of violent expression of hatred. Eleven Jewish people have been slain, [...]
Mindfulness Meditation "Ultimately, I see mindfulness as a love affair - with life, with reality and imagination, with the beauty of your own being, with your heart and body and mind, and with the world." Jon [...]
Meditation: A Bath for the Brain “My brain took a bath in Your brook. Now it bubbles.” Martha 1976 My favorite form of learning is to stumble into truth experientially, and then, to gain intentional knowledge through research and study. Such was my introduction to a life long love affair with the [...]
Meditation: Polishing The Cup If you are irritated by every rub, how will you ever get polished? Rumi Rubbing away our accumulated tarnish is ultimately an act of love. And yet, in the beginning, it feels a lot like work. The false selves that we create often have very specific purposes which [...]
