Sometimes, it’s very strange when and how life altering conclusions come to us and what processes those conclusions un-leash inside of us. One of my best friends has a business in which she raises and slaughters rabbits for dog food, restaurants and her own dinner. I told her that as a meat-eater for 43 years, [...]
Nothing But the Whole Wide World to Gain Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries. —Theodore Roethke I have wanted to tear down the walls that fear built, even to shatter the window glass, so that there would be nothing between us, no artifice to keep us from meeting, defenseless me to [...]
Brene Brown is a researcher in the graduate school of social work at the University of Houston. Here she gives an amazing talk on the power of human vulnerability. It is well worth the listen! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to [...]
A warm embrace: the end of suffering Read by Thich Nhat Hanh Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
I did not see the blue heron today standing on one foot in the river. I passed the bend where I’d seen him before, and looked, knowing he’d not appear midst the ice. Silly heart, it rose all the same. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers [...]
At some point, we begin to see how so many truths have an equal and opposite truth. The famous first line from A Tale of Two Cities hints at this: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” And we can be struck by this at almost any moment, as I [...]
The gap, for some of us, is tragic. Soul murdering tragic. Heart-breaking, self-depreciating, some-times unspeakably…tragic. The gap I’m referring to is the one between “the real us” and the us we think society expects, dictates, demands. I wrote about this one day last week – how I was lonely for the real me and how [...]
Drops of light and water, Absorbed daily, Nourished her In the garden of her life. Without warning, An excavation Threatened the source Of the life-giving exchange. And she, Though unaccustomed to the lack, With great grace, Found a new way to sustenance Without disturbing The sediment Needed to feed The excavators. Dedicated [...]
Sometimes the champion Wields nothing but a steady stethoscope Vast experience in the Garden of the Human Condition And her own radiant heart. Iceland volcano erupting, Winter 2010 Dedicated to my dear friend and former colleague, Deanna St. Germain, Medical Director at KIDS Center in Bend, OR and Medical Examiner for Deschutes County, Oregon. She [...]
This is the second guest post poem by Bonnie Lamont. The first was the unbearable lightness of being. This is a guest post from Bonnie Lamont Rose. Bonnie lives in Bend Oregon. Her life has been about seeking what’s true and real in a world that insists on remaining a mystery. This search for her [...]
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