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What about Jane?
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Bill
I just arrived home from a celebration of my friend Bill Birch’s life. He died in the last week of complications from the debilitating disease scleroderma. It was wonderful to see that there were so many people who…
Tagged with: Celebration of life, eulogy, Friendship, In memoriam, life, Memorial, Scleroderma
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Karma
Karma means action. Every action has an effect. Actions most often are given birth from our thoughts. Our thoughts in turn are affected by our actions. An action I make has consequences. We are also all linked, every…
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This and That or There But For the Grace of God Go I
I was feeling disappointed this morning. I had just finished meditating, the whole time during which my lower back ached. I injured it a couple of weeks ago and it was hurting. A lot. So much for my plans. I…
Tagged with: Abuse, Being with what is, Buddhism, Creator, fate, future, God, samsara, Spirituality, suffering
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Lucky
I am so lucky. I hurt my back two weeks ago. This morning at 7 a.m. I was startled by some pretty heavy knocking on my apartment door. My husband threw on his robe and opened the door to be…
Tagged with: Being with what is, contentment, glass half full, Gratefulness, life, Lucky, Meditation, perception, positivity
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A Gift to Remember
The train screeched and groaned its way onto the platform. Silhouetted against the Christmas lights shining through the windows of the station, the darkened figures dotting the platform gradually came into focus. I squinted, trying to locate them through the…
Looks ARE Deceiving
Originally posted on going outwords & inwords:
We can never know what’s going on for someone else. I was at the Tuscon airport a couple of days ago, preparing to fly back home here to Montana. I sat down at…
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Like a Cloud of the Cumulus Sort
Life: Unpredictable. Changeable. Impermanent. When I gaze at my reflection in a mirror, the image I see is very different from the one I saw ten or thirty or forty years ago. From month to month, year to year, and…
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