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  • Days 287-291 – Angels or Ghosts?

    By reimagining our life stories we can disarm Fear. Bullies that terrorized & betrayers who disappointed can become the scared beings who found no other way to act. New stories can light our way across Fear’s bridge to Love’s lake, home… Continue reading

  • Days 285-286 Graceful Receiving

    "When I walk outside the studio and a child comes up and gives me a hug… I know that is the field I want to be growing in. It’s not the fancy people in this world who seem to nourish… Continue reading

  • Days 290-286 – A Person of Value in a Culture of Meaning – The Thread That Holds Your Life Together

    For our lives to matter you & I must believe we are people of value in a culture of meaning. “There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about what you… Continue reading

  • Days 289-290 On Any Given Day

    As I read Erie Chapman’s meaningful reflection this week it sparked and rekindled a cherished memory. I recall caring for a kind and gentle woman who I shall call Helen. She accompanies me on my life’s journey. The beauty of… Continue reading

  • Days 280-284 – A Unique & Sacred Gift

    Imagine a friend spending one of her final hours buying you a gift. Opened, it may soon end up in the closet of the forgotten. Wrapped it may become, as here, unique, sacred & a holy expression of one of… Continue reading

  • Days 271-272 At One with Oneself!

    Note: Guest reflection by the fabulous Terry Chapman PhD. To be at one with oneself should be a primary life goal.  But getting to that point in one’s life journey requires the courage to keep moving toward a more integrated… Continue reading

  • Days 273-277 “Provided we stay brave…”

    “The forest is mostly dark, its ways to be made anew day after day, the dark richer than the light and more blessed, provided we stay brave enough to keep on going in.” Wendell Berry Continue reading

  • Days 264-265 Come with Me

    This past week I've learned a little about the life of a remarkable woman, Maya Angelou.  So often our greatest hardships unleash within us our greatest gifts. When Maya was seven years of age she was raped and had to… Continue reading

  • Days 259-263 – A Stirring Profile in Courage

    [A Top 10 Column From the Archives] As you sit in comfort read this life changing account of super-human heroism by a tiny woman caught in a giant tragedy. Does peace arrive only when we choose to surrender, to let… Continue reading

  • Days 257-258 Gift Yourself

    As we greet this day, I wish for you moments of quietude, to simply breathe, a little space to release the stresses, the worries and the to dos. Pause for a moment with me. Breathe in deeply. Let that breath… Continue reading