Kairos Network Blog: Stories and Essays on Death and Dying from Healthcare Professionals has picked up the story posted on Virtual Teahouse two years ago called: Douglas Firs Were Our Sanctuary. This edition is slightly edited and the collages were not able to be included. But the Andreya’s story (“A”) continues to ripple out into [...]
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Poem of the Month ~ August 2011 There’s an old adage and it goes like this: You can be right or you can be happy. Indeed! Amichai’s poem inspired me to create, “The Little Mole Club.” Credo: Undermining Certainties; Radiating Happiness. Now Open! New members being accepted every single day! The price of admission: All [...]
Linda Johnson’s journals from Ethiopia. See part 1 for more information. Ethiopian Journal 6-11-11 I haven’t written in a few days—have been coming down with an intestinal thing and have just been exhausted. Will try to capture the highlights of the past few days. On Friday morning, Dick and I went to Black Lion Hospital, [...]
Linda Johnson’s journals from Ethiopia. See part 1 for more information. Ethiopian Journal 6-9-11 The past 48 hours have been incredible, challenging, and very emotional for me. The best way I can think to describe it is when deepest dreams meet natural gifts to become reality. More of an explanation is in order. The pace [...]
From Linda Johnson’s unedited journals while in Ethopia May/June 2011 withn Reach Another Foundation. Ethiopian Journal Day 3, 5-28-11 Today is Saturday, and in spite of my usual routine of sleeping in until I awake naturally, those plans won’t work here. I took an Ambien last night and had the best night’s sleep in a [...]
You’ve heard the Buddhist wisdom of “die a thousand deaths”? I find, as I stop more often during each day to allow myself to be present, I am aware of the millions of times I fall back into conditioned thinking and my heart is broken over and over by circumstances, by people I love, even by the [...]
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There are those spaces in life, the liminal times of transition and uncertainty, when nothing seems to make sense. I’m weary of abiding in such a space, trying to walk sure-footedly on quicksand, to smile and sound confident as I’m riding the tiger, tense and unsure where I’m going, not in control. I don’t feel [...]
Back in June 2008 I posted this piece called ‘Nothing left to lose’. While talking with a companion (Finding Ground) I was telling them about this dream, looked up the post and saw that it would be a good one to update and repost. So, that’s exactly what I’m gonna do. Updates to the original post are obvious from [...]
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