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Happy Birthday

Posted on February 7, 2019 by 5amt3n — 8 Comments

The following is something I wrote on February 2, 2014: Happy Birthday to my mother today. She is ninety-two years old. Wow! Bruce and I went to see her last evening with a homemade lemon cake (her favourite) and birthday…

Tagged with: birthday, Gratefulness, life, Love, Mom, Mum, parenting
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Reframe Your Pain-An End-A Beginning

Posted on February 1, 2019 by 5amt3n — 8 Comments

Anger. Hurt. Anger. Shock. Anger. A feeling of betrayal. Anger. Quite the meditation session. Not my usual. As I sat on the cushion meditating my mind wouldn’t stop. Back to the breath. I’m in mourning? Oh my God. I’m in mourning.…

Tagged with: Anger, Beginnings, Caring, Community, Endings, Friendship, life, Love, nature, relationships
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The Letter

Posted on January 24, 2019 by 5amt3n — 10 Comments

I’m so sick of the excuse “they’re still your mom/dad/sister/brother/etc.” no, toxic is toxic You have the right to cut anyone off who is unhealthy to you The above quote is something a friend recently posted on Facebook, and…

Tagged with: Abuse, Healing, life, Mom, Mother, reconciliation, relationships, toxic mother, toxic parent, toxic relationships
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Bill

Posted on July 31, 2018 by 5amt3n — Leave a comment

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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Lucky

Posted on May 30, 2018 by 5amt3n — 2 Comments

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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Like a Cloud of the Cumulus Sort

Posted on September 12, 2017 by 5amt3n — Leave a comment

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…

Tagged with: Buddhism, Death, Impermanence, insight, life, poetry, Spirituality
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