Erie Chapman
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Day 164 – Centered in the Both/And
“Just because a rose has thorns does not mean that it needs to be fixed! The thorns tell us that all beauty in this creation is to be handled with love, care, attention, and the respect inherent in the present… Continue reading
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Days 162-163 – The Immovable Center
Find your immovable center and you can survive anything. – Joseph Campbell Does Campbell’s statement ring true for you? Perhaps, in order to find our "immovable center" we need to have experienced things that shake this center to its… Continue reading
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Day 161 – Summer Sunday on a Monday
You will know about my Sunday morning if you listen with the white ears of the oak-leaf hydrangea Continue reading
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Day 156 – 2nd Anniversary
The truth is that essays on loving care often have trouble finding an audience. Continue reading
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Day 155 – the Beloved Community
Caring circles are designed to support not task work but compassion work. King wrote that “something must happen so as to touch the hearts and souls of [people] that they will come together, not because the law says it, but… Continue reading
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Day 154
caregivers can shed tears whenever the situation calls for it, if they receive from their work settings the kind of caring circle group support we advance as part of the work of Radical Loving Care. Continue reading
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Day 150 – Mindful Again
Mindfulness is love that resists distraction (italics added). It is a staunch refusal to fall into absentmindedness. It is focused, sustained attention toward the beloved. Continue reading
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Day 148 – The Humanity in PTSD
Doctors, chaplains and ethicists have begun to publicly recognize the Love in humanity that lives in soldiers suffering Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Continue reading
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Day 142 – Telling the Truth
Sensitivity to the world means we are continually at risking the bruises that come when our hearts are open. I don’t have an easy answer to this challenge. Perhaps, we are all too interested in having our cake and eating… Continue reading
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