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We are on tenterhooks. The election is tomorrow. Our focus is on what we hear and fear. And yet we must focus on our own lives as well. What do we listen to and follow? In the word fear is the word ear. In the word heart are the words hear and ear. Through which […]

Daily we see and hear about the misuse of power. I wonder often, as I am sure you are doing also, about how to live in such a dark and troubled time? I believe each one of us is a soul trusted with our share of radiance from the Source. Teaching from the ancients is […]

It’s September and the beginning of school for many whether in a virtual way or in actual attendance. Either way the clarion word when learning is attendance . . . a juicy subject for this month. Haven’t we all been caught in black and white thinking some time or other? This is Good and that […]

Its already August! The summer is running its course, but the need for kindness has not. It seems more important than ever these days. Most of the posts will be from my book, Great Love in Little Ways: Reflections on the Power of Kindness. Phrases posted on Facebook, August 2020 When two people genuinely smile […]

Learning to be free is a ‘s work. If we harbor resentment or judgment against ourselves or anyone else, we’re still stuck in the old harbor tied up to the dock. Letting go of even one grievance is hard work. It is good work, not just for us but also for those around us. There […]

There come shape shifting times when new connections and actions demand to be made. This happens in nations as well as in people, and aren’t we in such a time now? In our personal lives this kind of time will declare itself at some point. No one’s life is without it. It is then we […]

In the following posts please notice how many times the word, may, appears. It is the month of May after all. Phrases posted on Facebook, May 2020 Here is a quote that touched me by William Sullivan. This is something that might inspire what we may do today and in the days ahead. We live […]

Being stopped isn’t bad. It’s just stopping for many reasons some of which may be really bad. Let’s separate being stopped from the reasons we are stopped. Maybe we can then have a more reasonable time of it. Phrases posted on Facebook, April 2020 In these days of having to be sequestered as best we […]

Every moment things are changing. That’s been true all along, but now in this virus-alert time we sense how rapidly change is happening all over the world. Then where is a place of steadiness and peace? Where is sanctuary? This will be answered in a million ways, but connection to Spirit and connection to others […]

I want to think about tenderness this month. It is a quality I greatly care about and our rocking world needs it very much. We think of tenderness as being soft, a quality characterized by gentleness. In my experience when we act with tenderness our actions can enter circumstances and change them more deeply than […]