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Nothing left to lose
29 June 08 05:52 AM
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About 13 years ago I had a dream that I will live-into for the rest of my life. In the dream, I'm part of the life of a retreat center or monastery of some sort. The center is on an island and on top of a large plateau or mountain with ocean surrounding.
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Katrina remembered: "Yes, my love, this is how it goes" Part 1
21 June 08 10:54 AM
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Solstice weekend now and forever will have a more personal meaning. This 2 part post is about my dear friend Katrina, who like the hurricane,was a force of nature. Katrina died of cancer at the age of 51 in 2003 on June 19th at 11:45pm, 15 minutes before
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Jack's Foiled (Im)mortality Plan
19 March 08 05:46 PM
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Technorati Tags: spirituality , honoring , humor We had a bizarre happening today, March 19, 2008. Our good friend, Jack Kennedy, spiritual director, teacher of Ignatian spirituality and much-loved human being from Portland, Oregon was proclaimed both
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Woodpecker Wisdom: Encounters of yet another kind
05 February 08 02:53 AM
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I had this experience on Sunday February 3 rd . I took it to my dream circle on Monday the 4th, as a ‘waking dream’ and that group of wise women very graciously helped me begin to unpack it. I’m at my house, getting ready to try to remove the foot of
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Taking the Secret Something-or-Other game to heart
25 December 07 11:59 AM
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At the office where I work, we do a Secret Santa/ Harry Hanukkah/Kerry Kwanzaa routine where we draw names and then for 2-3 weeks in December we look for any and all opportunities to do really sweet and cool things for that person. I have found that doing
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Shards of light
08 December 07 05:47 AM
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After Apple Picking by Robert Frost My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still. And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn't pick upon some bough. But I am done with apple-picking
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(polar) opposites attract
12 October 07 02:43 PM
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Cool story in pictures sent to me by Michelle Duncan. Norbert Rosing's striking images of polar bears playing with sled dogs in the wilds of Canada's Hudson Bay. The photographer was sure that he was going to see the end of his huskies when the polar
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