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When we care for someone or something it is intimate, and it is also particular. We may not realize that those moments of care go beyond the circumstances in which they happen and pool into an ocean of shared care. Now more than ever it’s important to understand this and to hold the world in […]

February has gone and we are in another month. While things are always ending, becoming continues. Break the word becoming apart and there is BE and Coming. It is a wise guru word because when we fully enter being that which truly belongs to us can’t help but keep coming. Phrases posted on Facebook, March […]

We know about February thaw when the temperature climbs for a little while and the snow melts. I’d like to think February-melt is about kindness, embracing it in our lives as a way to be and to melt any harshness in us and around us. Phrases posted on Facebook, February 2025 I have a friend […]

inding what’s new is always finding something that’s always been there but we weren’t aware of it. What’s new is my topic for the first month of the new year. Phrases Posted on Facebook, January 2025 Waking up to a new day is a daily invitation to be love, to give and receive love and […]

The year is coming to an end in less than thirty days. No doubt enormous changes lie ahead for us. How to live now, I wonder and turn to regarding habits that serve in good times and in bad times. Habits that Serve is my subject for December. Phrases Posted on Facebook, December 2024 Do […]

I can’t think of a better subject than gratitude for the month in which we celebrate Thanksgiving.  If the first thing I do upon waking is to say thank you, I will approach my day not with a long list of what I need to do (although that list certainly will be there), but I […]

We are always, always choosing even when we think we are not, for that, too, is a choice. In making an important decision I like to be aware of whether my mind is making the choice or if my heart is doing so. The mind likes to be clever and “with it”. My heart wants […]

Counting our blessings is always a good thing to do like counting sheep to fall asleep. BUT absorbing a blessing . . . now that’s dangerous and changes everything! What changes everything is my subject in September. Phrases posted on Facebook, September 2024. Here’s a dare for the month. Can I, can you, will I, […]

Neither more nor less is enough. How wonderful it is to recognize that enough becomes enough, my subject for the dog days of August. Phrases posted on Facebook, August 2024 We each have only so many days to enjoy. A time comes when having tried too long slows us down to the pace of grace, […]

Rest and wrest, two words that sound the same. One refreshes and assembles, the other separates. To wrest something from another something takes effort. Do we divide to conquer, or do we include and come to more wholeness? I’d like to mull this in July as we celebrate freedom on the fourth of July Phrases […]