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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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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Now is the time to anchor!

November 2, 2024 by

In the whirlwind of change
Stand tall
Root in the Earth
Breath into your heart
Feel inward.

From this place
Open your eyes
And see.

When drawn out of yourself by another’s fears, the events, pain of the world, pull back into your own center.

Your gift to the world is you
Rooted in what is true.
Your inner knowing
Connected to the Universal Truth.

Cultivate presence, meditate, contemplate life, pray, dance, sing, walk in nature…..
Now is the time.

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Remember…again

June 21, 2024 by

I started to look for my phone and passed my printer. It said I needed to replace a cartridge. I started to do that and remembered I was on my way to the basement to get toilet paper. Went down to get it and saw the Kitty litter needed cleaning. Did that and got the Toilet paper. I passed the kitchen counter and realized I hadn’t finished the letter to my sister yet. Oh yes, the phone, let me use the old flip phone to call myself. Oh, there it is on the porch. I got distracted when I saw the cat throw-up and decided I’d better clean it up before the heat cemented it into the rug. And then I remembered to put up the toilet paper. Oh, and I need to send that email to my neighbor before I forget. And, I need a new phone. I need to check them out but am I ready to take on more technology?…

Why do I feel distracted, unsettled? Life seemed simpler when I had one big project or thing to focus on. I get caught up in the minutia of life.

Breath! Settle back into my body. Remember what matters.
Do what needs to be done but stay present. So I exhale. Practice, practice, practice.

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Sad Today

August 3, 2023 by

The sadness comes unbidden
Followed by anger flowing
Back into the abyss of sadness
Why is love so hard
My heart wants to split open but
I stop it
Staying caught in the cycle
Trying to stay in control
Will I ever learn?

Letting go, letting the tears come, feeling the losses, letting the world be as crazy as it is…. Keening is what I want to do but I don’t know how.
So, I let myself feel. Being in the moment can be hard sometimes.

I write this and wait…breathing, until it changes.

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Nobility

November 9, 2021 by

“Nobility, in the Buddhist sense, means releasing ourselves from the social constructs that blind us to the truth, positioning ourselves to receive the truth, accept the truth, and learn to live equanimously with the truth.” *

Releasing each thread that binds
leaving less mass, less…
until there is just me and what I see
what my hands feel
the sounds and smells around me.

Less anchored but more connected
Is it enough? Or maybe, is it all there is?

Things in my life are beginning to shift. Four years 5 months after losing Joseph, something is opening up and, somethings are dropping away. I’ve yet to refill my bookcases after moving my office into what was Joseph’s…I step around the many boxes of books in the dining room, not sure what to carry forward. I like the empty shelves. It’s as if they’re waiting for something, as if they are enjoying the space.

Well, if I’ve learned one thing, it’s that I can’t force or rush what wants to happen. And for the first time, I’m at peace with it.

………………..

* “Buddhism as a Path of Trauma Resilience for Anti-Racism Activists,” editors’ introduction to Black & Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us about Race, Resilience, Transformation and Freedom, ed. Pamela Ayo Yetunde and Cheryl A. Giles (Shambhala: 2020), 2, 3. from Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation, 11/9/21

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