Drop. Swap. Grow
Hello all! Ok, so when we last left our super heroes, they were planning to go to New Mexico and have been on many a journey since October. So yes~~ it’s been like 3 months since I posted, and in truth, this does not take the place of A Real Post. BUT! More is coming. The current Blessings website is being updated, the blogs are being streamlined, the practice here is changing and much more magic and mischief is afoot! Change is good and it is on the way, in fact it is among us! In the meantime, our super cool friends over at Drop. Swap.Grow are up to their annual shenanigans and...
Read MoreWorld Hunger Day Fast for Charity
Hello all! I know it’s been awhile! Things are good here and I’ve been out living life instead of blogging about it. More to come on a recent trip and much more. In the meantime, I wanted to update you on some things that are coming in October. This time of year is traditionally about honoring the cycle of the seasons, pausing to reflect on our abundance and blessings, and preparing for winter. To call attention to the ways in which many people on the planet are unable to take part in the abundance of harvest, UN World Hunger Day is held every October. Also called World...
Read MoreDeserts and the Eight Worldly Dharmas
Hello all ! It’s been forever since I stopped by, so I thought I’d say hello. Blogger Slacker, indeed! Truthfully, I’ve been out living my life instead of blogging about it. As part of those life adventures, I spent some time in the southwest, rambling around in the desert. This picture was taken while hiking in the canyons of southern Utah, one of the most gorgeous places on the planet. I was thinking about the desert and my Utah trip this morning. I love the southwest. LOVE IT. And as I proceed across the landscape of my life, with grief from recent deaths, lots...
Read MoreGrief is its own Medicine
“Grief is itself a medicine.” ~~William Cowper (1731-1800) I went to visit my dad over the weekend. It’s been almost five months since my mom died and Saturday morning we went to the cemetery. It was an overcast Ozark day, one my mother would have called “dreary.” Too many days in a row like that and I start to get sort of squirrely, but today I found the starkness of the country landscape beautiful. It seemed like a good day to go to a grave. My mom is buried four or five miles back on an old country road, in Clubb Cemetery, outside of Zalma, MO. The...
Read MoreHappy Solstice and Merry Happy Everything!
Hello all 🙂 Happy Solstice! This is probably the last post of 2011 and on this Day of Light, I wanted to say hello and thanks for another great year. I also want to acknowledge what a difficult time of year this is for many of us, all over the planet. So in this powerful time when we celebrate all of what it means that Light comes into the world, perhaps a gentle reminder to breathe and let yourself rest a bit. Breathe and allow it to replace that holiday tension with a holy relaxation and sacred calm. This is the time of year when we are reminded to replace the fear and darkness...
Read MoreSpiritual Fruits or Just Nuts?
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground. Let the beauty we love be what we do. ~~Rumi I love this picture, taken when the Christ the Redeemer statue was under construction. One of the New Seven Wonders of the World, it was built in Rio di Janiero in the 1920’s and is huge, overlooking the whole city. It captures how I so often feel on the path and I look at it from time to time to remind me of what it symbolizes to me in my...
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