Erie Chapman Foundation
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Days 100-101 What Can I Offer?
As I reflected on this question, what can I offer? I thought about Easter, new life, transformation… National Poetry month…. Earth Day is in April… I thought about care of creation… I thought about springtime… and all these ideas pointed… Continue reading
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Days 95-99 – A Near-Death Experience
As my body moves from near-death to actual, that childhood experience looms. Click on the link for a meditation created to suggest those moments & bring you peace.(1946 footage of dad & me by my mother.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnIHcNufeLI Continue reading
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Days 92-93 Beginning to Sing
Let's not get swept away and lose sight of sweet delights. Spring is here. Mother Earth is giving birth to Iris, Buttercup, Rose and Jasmine. Are we going to visit these little bundles of joy? These exquisite miracles of… Continue reading
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Days 88-92 Describe Yourself In One Sentence
A wish lantern was released at your birth. What came true? How would you describe who are? Remember? Just one sentence. Mine is: “I went after too much & got it.” Continue reading
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Days 86-87 In Your Hands
As the seasons change from Winter to Spring, earth is full of beautiful reminders of a movement from darkness to light and of new pathways for being in this world. After a year of responding, serving and walking through… Continue reading
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Days 79-80 The Land of a Thousand Welcomes
In honor of St Patrick’s Day, I thought I would share a snippet from my family history. My maternal grandmother, Kate was born in Ireland and she set sail for America, by herself when she was just seventeen. She worked… Continue reading
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Day 78 – Fine Art Friday: “…a [spring] sea of miracles” – Poetry from James Lee Worrell
We humans act similarly to adapt to culture. Yet, we see the world in such different ways. The more sensitive the being, the richer the view. Today, James Lee Worrell shares a poem. Continue reading
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Days 74-77 One Swing
For a moment, the subject was not the pandemic or politics or war. It was that something happy happened to somebody, anybody. Something they could celebrate as well. Continue reading
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Days 67-71 – Deep Comfort
Cynics are incapable of experiencing deep comfort. True healers help sufferers to trust what they cannot see, to see Beauty that is right before their eyes, to hope for miracles because life itself is a miracle & to find… Continue reading
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Days 60-64 “Love After Love”
How can there be Love AFTER Love? Derek Wolcott answers that brilliantly. In so doing, he gives us a gift beyond measure. Continue reading
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