I am honored that the story of my 94 year old grandmother Verna’s near death experience is included in this compilation. Available through Amazon on Kindle and in paperback. Click on the picture for a direct Amazon link. You can also read my story on Finding Ground site: Closer Than Our Own Skin If you’d like [...]
My dear friend Linda Johnson is on a month long work tour in Ethiopia with the Reach Another Foundation*. Linda is an RN and an administrator. She has applied and been accepted for the Peace Corps, but is awaiting deployment later in 2011 or early 2012. We are posting her journal entries, several at a time for [...]
From one of my favorite artists… How To Invite Yourself To Tea When you invite yourself to tea Be sure to bring enough cream and cookies along. Shortbread cookies sure are nice in the morning. Be sure to bring a journal and plenty of colored pens. And don’t forget to light the candles whatever you [...]
Found this by Rumi called Spring Giddiness: “Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. ——————————————————— The breeze [...]
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 [...]