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May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them. -- Seen out and about. What a perfect prayer.

I've sought out counseling maybe a handful of times in my life.  Usually, it only lasts about three sessions, when I can tell that the t...

A very wise friend talked with me about the dichotomy of ego. In the negative, we identify with our work and the things we DO.  We assume ...

Something that I've been turning over in my little brain for a while now... I believe meaning in this life is all about connection.  I...

Joanna Macy reads her translation of Rilke's poem from the Book of Hours : I live my life in widening circles that reach out across ...

http://www.fierceinc.com/leadership-books An Excerpt: “Congratulations. You are a leader. It’s a heavy load, but someone has to do it. ...

I bought a dollar and a half’s worth of small red potatoes, took them home, boiled them in their jackets and ate them for dinner with a litt...

A wise thought from my brain today, wise in the way that seemingly obtuse statements are actually pretty deep: Be in the relationship you ...

The space-flinging, time-singing unborn Goddess First-Of-All, Chaos the Free: She casts the stars, the comets, moons, the dust of light...

"Your body keeps an accurate journal regardless of what you write down" 

It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have ...

Two girls discover    the secret of life    in a sudden line of    poetry. I who don’t know the    secret wrote    the li...

"It's hard to know when to respond to the seductiveness of the world and when to respond to its challenge. If the world were merely...

Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, love with the doors banging on their hinges, the cupboard unlocked,...

From  THE MOONS OF AUGUST Did she know there was more to life than lions licking the furred ears of lambs, fruit trees dropping their fat ...

It must be transition time again, because here I am, feeling the need to show up again on the page. And finding myself here, finding so ma...

Half-numb, guzzling bourbon and Coke from coffee mugs, our fathers fall in love with their own stories, nuzzling the facts but mauling the t...

[abridged by me. Full version available here .] My writing: hard-boiled. My life: scrambled soft. • The cud of thinking: by th...

He went there to learn how to give a good perm and ended up just crazy about nails so He opened up His own shop. “Nails by Jim” ...

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