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Category Archives: Life, stories & more
2019 Engaging wholeheartedness
It is time I revisit my 2014 writing challenge of engaging life with a wholeheart. This year the writing challenge for myself will foreground the theme of living consciously, and will inquire deeply with courage into all that this may … Continue reading →
Posted in 2019 Engaging with Wholeheartedness, courage, life, Life, stories & more
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Tagged conscious living
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FierceRising
Who am I Who am I now Who is this person I call me Who is she Is she the baby leaving the shores of her birth and first footsteps Never to return to it again as home Never … Continue reading →
Take a risk, what is there to lose?
A year for taking risks. For leaping into your own life, into your own unfolding future. When did you last risk everything for a chance to live your life, this life that the soft gentle voice whispering in the depths … Continue reading →
Posted in life, Life, stories & more, Love & loss, grief & joy
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Tagged courage, leap year, love, Mary Oliver, no regrets, talk a risk, Valentins's Day
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WORLD AIDS DAY 2015
She was still a young woman. She told me that she was having pain on her side, that she was not feeling well, that she would struggle to pick up the baby that day. That she thought her side was … Continue reading →
Belonging and the vagaries of feeling at home
“In contrast to how a child belongs in the world, adult belonging is never as natural, innocent, or playful. Adult belonging has to be chosen, received, and renewed. It is a lifetime’s work.” – John O’Donohue “As you grow, you … Continue reading →
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Tagged belonging, home, journey, kindness, searching
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The many blessings of longing and joy
Thirteen years ago I came across a book in a local bookstore by Rachel Naomi Remen called My Grandfather’s Blessings. A book of stories of strength, refuge and belonging. For me it became a book of change, a call to … Continue reading →
Posted in ehospice: Mindfulness - our sixth sense, Life, stories & more
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Tagged being seen, courage, full catastrophe, journey, joy, life, longing, presence, showing up, unconditional
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Shadows of kindness
Winter solstice Night of the long shadows Night marking winter beginnings Marking paradoxically, the return of the sun And in days to come A rebirth A new year New moments to recreate and re-envision this life Winter solstice Arriving on … Continue reading →
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Tagged attention, care, compassion, faith, kindness, life, pain, presence, stop sit breathe be, suffering, trust, winter solstice
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