Reflections, Holidays, Spirituality
Christmas, Light, Hope, Winter Solstice, Memories
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Day 56 – In Private Places
Art is an adventure into an unknown world, which be explored only by those willing to take risks. -Adolph Gotlieb 1903-74 I often reflect on how irrelevant both arts and the notion of risk must seem to the everyday… Continue reading
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Day 49 – Inclinations Toward Love – A Darwinian Paradox
I see Love wherever beauty and truth thrive – whether in a caregiver, a flower, a sparrow, a monkey or a stanza of poetry. Our goal is not to question Love’s existence or to doubt through what form it may… Continue reading
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Day 40 – Replacing Pity With Compassion
More than two hundred years ago, the Scottish poet Robert Burns challenged us to see ourselves as others see us. Continue reading
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Day 34 – Crystal Balls vs. Mirrors
Crystal balls seem like fun. Mirrors seem like work. Continue reading
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Day 2 – Models of Love – Open Forum
Children need models more than they need critics. – Joseph Joubert, Pensées Our instinct to try and correct the behavior of others through criticism begins at an early age. We hear it from our parents, then nursery school teachers,… Continue reading
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Day 337 – Can People Be “Changed?”
Personality must be accepted for what it is. You musn’t mind that a poet is a drunk. – Oscar Wilde More than a century after the great Oscar Wilde wrote the above line have we yet learned that he… Continue reading
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Days 326-328 – Open Forum on Loving Care
Whatever the question, Love is the answer. – Written on a blackboard at Alive Hospice in Nashville. When I asked Karen York of Alive Hospice about the above quote, she said, "I thought I got that from you." No… Continue reading
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Day 324 – Love’s Wisdom
When I see your true essence, I see the face of God, the light of Love, which is, was, and always will be present in you and in me. Love is abundant, and when Love is shared it expands out… Continue reading
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