Who am I?

February 20, 2026 by 9 Comments

I am many things
Don’t put me in a bucket of you’re choosing
I am diverse, a little bit of a lot of things

I seek the truth wherever it lies
The truth about I like and don’t like

Even when I don’t like what I’m seeing
Even about me
I am that too

It’s easier to attach and be one thing,
to believe strongly in one thing.

But easy doesn’t reflect my true self,
nor the diversity of all things
So I am grateful.

With every change
Inner and outer

I grow more aware, knowing
I am
We are

One

In honor of the anniversary of my birth.

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MLK

January 19, 2026 by

“On April 3, 1968, the night before the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by a white supremacist, he gave a speech in support of sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee.

Dr. King told the audience that if God had let him choose any era in which to live, he would have chosen the one in which he had landed. “Now, that’s a strange statement to make,” King went on, “because the world is all messed up. The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land; confusion all around…. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.” Dr. King said that he felt blessed to live in an era when people had finally woken up and were working together for freedom and economic justice. ” from Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American, Jan. 18, 2026

We have a ways to go, but may we work together for freedom, economic justice and the awareness that we are in this together as one. Love thy neighbor as thyself. Learn to love yourself.

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Thoughts going into 2026

January 9, 2026 by

We’re in this together

Our life journeys weave through time: intersecting, moving away, hiding, coming together, falling behind, moving ahead.
Some of us learn along the way, others get stuck in learned patterns and beliefs.
Some are trapped in the prisons of their own or other’s making.
Yet still, we’re all on the journey home.
We are in this together.

May I move forward with compassion not judgement.
May I be open to co-creating what wants to be born.
Releasing the fear of something different, of what I thought I needed.
May I move forward with self-care not selfishness.
May I truly love and care for ALL life.

Here’s to a new year.

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Holidays

December 13, 2025 by

… Bob Dylan, in a 1960 interview with Rolling Stone*, 28-years-old and already looking back sagely:
“Boy, I hurried… I hurried for a long time. I’m sorry I did. All the time you’re hurrying, you’re not really as aware as you should be. You’re trying to make things happen instead of just letting it happen. You follow me?”

It’s Christmas! People are scurrying to buy last minute presents, fit in all the family and friend gatherings, attend concerts and church events, and deal with the crazy weather predictions.

Slowing down and letting it happen might be a challenge but it may also be the answer to enjoying the Holidays. Letting yourself be more aware of and present to your experience.

Slowing down as in noticing your breathing. Slowing down as in tasting that cookie you’re eating. Relaxing, knowing you’ll get to the next place in perfect time. Slowing down and smiling at those around you.

My wish for you: May your Holidays unfold in perfect peace, with love, and anchored in the knowing that it is all happening perfectly.

*improvisedlife.com Improvised Life: a treasury of inspiring ideas

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Thanks-giving

November 15, 2025 by

If you tell someone what to do,
who hasn’t asked
You’re denying their agency.

The world doesn’t need saving
Neither do people
They need love

Love accepts them
Love is the best you
Love leads you

To enhance their well-being
To work for justice for all
To co-create what’s next

Love shows up. The softening of your heart, the relaxing of your body, the voice of the genuine within.

Its Thanksgiving time….
We are loved
We are love
Love.

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Time Change

November 3, 2025 by

I gained an extra hour today
Where did it go?

Life speeds by
It’s not about keeping up.

“Love doesn’t require outcomes
just presence”*

“I’m willing to be present
and be God’s love in the world,
however God calls me to”**

Maybe it’s that simple
Even though it’s that hard

More and more I’m listening to my inner voice, and as I do, I find life flows and there is greater peace. I like that.

*from a talk by Dr, Corey Cockerill, President of Wilmington College
**from the Body Prayer of Julian of Norwich

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Stillness

October 6, 2025 by

Words don’t come
Ideas flow through
Then there is silence

There is a space
A quiet stillness
It just is

So different from
The stories, the doings
It’s hard to share

Yet it is who I am right now

From this place of stillness
Need to listen
To connect

My journey continues. I’m learning to be comfortable with stillness; to not feel I have to talk about what’s going on, current or past. It works better when I allow a the words to “arise or not” when I’m with someone. I learning that questions can be more connecting then statements of what I’ve done. I’m not good at asking questions yet. But I will be.

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I Wait

August 23, 2025 by

The words won’t come
What am I waiting for?
What am I resisting?

If answers were easy
We’d skip through life
But the potholes stop us

Pot holes, rabbit holes
Something linked to the past
That keeps us tied

Conditioning by others
There is no right answer
No guarantee of success

Just peace in the now.

I being drawn to not doing. As if this is the time to breath.
Accept that reading a book is a legitimate way to spend my time. Pull weeds. Sit on the old tree stump and feel myself flowing into the earth. It it enough?

Maybe, just maybe, yes! I don’t have to earn my worth.

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Independence Day

July 4, 2025 by

Be free
Release your judgments that trap you
Into seeing only what you see

Be free
Release the shame felt from the
Judgments of others

Be free
Get to know your body,
Learn to love how you look

Be free
Feel the sadness, fear, the caring
Let the tears flow

Be free
Your worth is not tied to
Having/doing the latest whatever

Be free
Know and love who you are
You’re God’s gift to the world

Be free
Be love
Beloved

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Emergence

June 15, 2025 by

I’m waiting
The space
Immobilizes

I want to hold still
Stand in grass
Listen to birds

The “to-do” list gets longer
I step around it
What calls me

Silence

I don’t want to do
I walk alone
Talk with a friend

That’s enough

I’m nothing
I’m everything
Seeking presence

Confused
Immobilized
Crazy? Perhaps

The journey of awakening, of seeking to be present, to know God, continues to challenge me. But I’m seeing more, not just about where it all started but how I keep the old beliefs/stories alive today. That is a blessing but also pretty humbling. LOL!

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