mjae

One M's Musings and Occasional Insights

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Scheduling

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I found myself yesterday thinking this little gem: "I wish I didn't schedule so many activities so that I could have more spac...
Monday, August 01, 2011

Relationship Questions

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My homework in the next week: What imbalance do you find in your relationship? What might that imbalance represent symbolically? What can be...
Sunday, July 31, 2011

35th Year

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In my 35th year, the last grandparents' ashes successfully sprinkled in their final resting place, I find myself casting about for how t...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Memorial for Jack & Judy Hart

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You were hard -- so rigid you never moved an inch from each other fused instead like two trees into one, trunks locked in a death-grip e...
Friday, July 15, 2011

Working Principles

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Ten Principles To Live By In Fiercely Complex Times BY Tony Schwartz Wed Jul 13, 2011 If you...

Formula for Change

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Alan Webber, co-founder of Business Week, wrote that change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of status quo is greater than t...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Invitation - Rev. Angela Herrera

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This is a prayer of invitation. An invitation To you there, with your happiness and your burden, With your hopes and regrets. An invitation ...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Barbara Ras - Washing the Elephant

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Isn’t it always the heart that wants to wash the elephant, begging the body to do it with soap and water, a ladder, hands, in tree shade big...

If You Forget Me - Pablo Neruda

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I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red...

Knowing You're in Trouble

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I know I'm in trouble when I don't write in a journal or a blog or random pieces of paper in church. I know I'm in trouble when ...

A Tomb Is No Place to Stay - Richard Gilbert

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A tomb is no place to stay, Be it a cave in the Judaean hills Or the dark cavern of the spirit. A tomb is no place to stay When fresh grass ...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Autumn - Rainer Maria Rilke

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The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up, as if orchards were dying high in space. Each leaf falls as if it were motionin...

West Wind #2 - Mary Oliver

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You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrass...

Biding Time

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One of my beloved friends wrote today about biding her time. Seems to have struck a nerve. After all my waiting for months to find steady e...
Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Making It Last

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Making it last, we put more faith in the process than in the fruits of our labor. We love the hand-holding, embrace the moments of confron...

Reaping What You Sow

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Thank god some of what returns to us is the bounty of our gratitude matured, seeds of patience flourishing to fall lavishly on the present l...

Building Relationships

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Nanoseconds planted and multiplied cultivate the shift between my perspective and what I can clearly see you need when I step back to take...
Sunday, November 28, 2010

Bringing in the Elements

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Our hands are built for digging in dirt although we rush from soil to sink as though wine-spilled, time the only dam between stain and the p...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Getting Started

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You will need more earth than you can imagine – a topsoil self stretched two inches thin in each direction, rotten lessons from years past...
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