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Days 337-341 – Our “Pale Blue Dot”
Time tricks us, Reality fools us most & we are brief breaths across earth’s face. But this is the stage for our drama, our comedy & your healing. This is the pale blue dot on which we whisper our… Continue reading
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Days 330-334 – Our Universe is Tiny! The power of Morn1415
Look out through the Hubble telescope or within using an electron microscope & what appears is more & more dazzling complexity. None of that tells us what matters most to each of us. Continue reading
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Days 303-307 – Preparing for Perfection – Monna Vanna to Mona Lisa
You have trained all of your life to become your best at your work. Perhaps, you have only been making drawings & drafts & are just now ready to create your personal masterpiece. Continue reading
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Days 299-303 – Leonardo Da Vinci & The Woodpecker’s Tongue
“”He was the greatest creative genius in history & the ultimate example of someone who connected art & science & spirit,” Walter Isaacson says. We can probably learn more from Leonardo Da Vinci than we can from any other person… Continue reading
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Days 292-296 – Pieces of Love
“The heart is the whole thing. We are only pieces.” Rumi wrote. The 13th century Persian mystic wrote glorious poetry & not a verse of it is out of date. We want our hearts to be dwelling places for Love. Yet,… Continue reading
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Days 285-289 – The Healer’s Gaze
They gaze at each other, sunlit beings linked by blood, separated in age by three years & one month, joined forever in the love of sister & brother. Two-week-old Reed Chapman owns that baby’s ability to stare unselfconsciously because he is… Continue reading
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Days 279-283 – Always Dreaming
“We dream – it is good we are dreaming -/ It would hurt us were we awake…” Does Dickinson’s quote reflect how you feel? Was Plato right when he wrote that “All of life is a dream?” Continue reading
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Days 272-276 – Where the Temple Begins
There are hundreds of lessons that can be gleaned from watching geese in flight. Yet, the most important appears in three lines from Mary Oliver, “There are things you can’t reach. But/you can reach out to them, and all day… Continue reading
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Days 265-269 The Power of Play
“Perhaps, it is when we unite work & play that we do our best caregiving – for each other as well as for the patient before us.” Continue reading
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Days 258-262 – Delight & Mystery
Love holds us as close as we allow. She is Mystery & Delight – ready to wrap us in her veil of joy. The only question is whether we will accept her gentle invitation. Continue reading
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