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Days 108-110 – How Do Stories Change Us?
Our stories define our lives. Particular stories can change our lives – the ones told by family and friends, the ones described in books, movies and on television and the stories we tell each other. Most crucial of all, of… Continue reading
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Days 106-107 Nature’s Spirit
Recently, my husband, Woody and I enjoyed a weekend in Northern California. I awoke early Saturday morning to the sound of rain falling from a steel grey sky. When the sun broke through we went for a walk in Armstrong… Continue reading
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Days 104-105 – The Servant’s Heart & The Power of Stories
“Those with a Servant’s Heart put aside their immediate wants for the deeper needs of others. They help others no matter what.” – Erie Chapman Continue reading
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Days 101-103 – Love Above All
“Only if we discover Love within us can we recognize Love in others.The most powerful thing to know about Radical Loving Care is that it is found within us. It is impossible for us to live Love unless we accept… Continue reading
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Days 99-100 Daffodils
Poem by William Wordsworth, Watercolor by ~liz, 4/7/12 Continue reading
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Days 97-98 – The Five Relationships in Sacred Encounters
“Radical Loving Care is learned from within before it is practiced without. This process continues in each moment that we ‘pay attention to life.'” – Erie Chapman Continue reading
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Days 94-96 – “Practicing & Teaching” The Mother Test
“No healthcare organization can call itself a center of loving care, a healing place, unless it can pass The Mother Test. How can a culture be transformed to accomplish this goal?” -Erie Chapman Continue reading
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Days 92-93: “Stand Under the Stars”
Offering hospitality to grief. Continue reading
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Days 90-91 – The Story Behind “The Mother Test”
“When organizations care about their mission and when caregivers believe in their work as a calling, then, and only then, does the Mother Test become reality.” – Erie Chapman Continue reading
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