Episode Twenty Seven, A Crystal Rim
The Earth Lifts its glass to the sun And light - light Is poured... So begins this poem of Hafiz and so begins our lives before we take...
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Jun 2, 20222 min read
Episode Twenty Six, To Build a Swing
I have a young granddaughter who loves to swing. My son keeps a swing set well maintained in their backyard for her. Often, when...
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May 30, 20222 min read
Episode Twenty Five, If God Invited You To a Party
An invitation to be oneself. The authentic self. The self that others rarely see this side of a cocktail; the self that we keep under...
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Cile
May 26, 20223 min read
Episode Twenty Four, Out of This Mess
I was once told, "Everything has a mouth. Everything must be fed a type of energy whether it is food or it is our precious focus." Worry...
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May 23, 20224 min read
Episode Twenty Three, Against My Own Hand
The subject of healing can be a journey across a field of semantic landmines. When I was younger and learning about the language of...
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May 19, 20222 min read
Episode Twenty Two, Removing the Shoe From the Temple
Self respect, "...a simple matter of etiquette," says Hafiz. There was a time when people wore hats and there were entire protocols...
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May 16, 20222 min read
Episode Twenty One, That Magnificent Storm
There is nothing easy about being a human being when it comes to relationships. So much can depend upon the weather one brings to it. We...
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May 12, 20221 min read
Episode Twenty, Your Seed Pouch
Were do we go when we sleep? What final, little wisp of thought opens the portal allowing the vehicle of our slumber to drive us there?...
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May 9, 20221 min read
Episode Nineteen, Mismatched Newlyweds
The most difficult time to accept love is when we feel unlovable yet it is the most potent time to receive it. This is a powerful secret...
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Cile
May 5, 20222 min read
Episode Eighteen, Your Mother and My Mother
Our sorrows can run deep. Those of us who recognize the same mother can comfort each other in these sad places because we were born in a...
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May 2, 20221 min read
Episode Seventeen, Who Wrote All the Music
There is a source like a great river that sustains us all in individual ways. At some juncture our ideas and identities - our brilliance...
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Apr 28, 20222 min read
Episode Sixteen, Why Just Ask the Donkey
When we converse, we can find ourselves in a hall of mirrors if the subject be tender and thorny. Perhaps it reaches deep within us to...
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Cile
Apr 25, 20221 min read
Episode Fifteen, The Seed Cracked Open
It is, perhaps, to the benefit of our survival that we do not grasp our duality and its constructs until we are older so we can be...
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Apr 21, 20221 min read
Episode Fourteen, The Sun Never Says
The sun looks small and inconsequential from where we sit. It is easy to think that this is a quiet, benevolent force in our lives. But...
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Apr 14, 20222 min read
Episode Twelve, I Have Learned So Much
In this episode we are on to the second chapter of The Gift by Hafiz. I read this first poem and I'm reminded of Kurt Cobain's lyric from...
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Cile
Apr 7, 20221 min read
Episode Ten, You're It
As if life were a game of tag, at some point we are going to be pursued, touched and by the rules of the game; the running must stop....
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Apr 4, 20223 min read
Episode Nine, I Can See Angels
I have never felt alone though I have often been lonely. This loneliness is true especially since I retired and left behind my friends...
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Mar 31, 20223 min read
Episode Eight, We Have Not Come to Take Prisoners
Karma is not punitive. Embracing consequence is the medicine that brings that balance. So why do we disempower ourselves from living...
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Cile
Mar 28, 20222 min read
Episode Seven, This Sane Idea
When I was first introduced to connecting with people online in 2002, social media was in its infancy. It was a zygote, really. There had...
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Mar 24, 20221 min read
Episode Six, A Hunting Party
People are energetic beings and when like energies gather they are exponentially more powerful in their focus. If we hunt for something...
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