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Sunday, April 16, 2023

"Finding Your Own North Star" - Martha Beck

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 Martha Beck - we carry 2 different selves in our heads, some speaking more loudly than others. Social self - learn from our families and cu...

Meditation

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 Be here, be present. At peace with what is, and if not, pushing in the direction I want, if things can be changed, and if they can't, p...

Retirement Planning

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 Talking to my friend this morning about how he fills his days, since he's retired (and has been for 6 years, starting at age 56). It...
Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Morning Meditation - Jonathan Lehmann

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  Video Affirmations: 1.       I make plans but remain flexible. I try to say yes as often as possible. 2.       I cultivate patience, and b...
Sunday, April 09, 2023

"Sorrow Is Not My Name" (poem) - Ross Gay

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- after Gwendolyn Brooks No matter the pull toward brink. No matter the florid, deep sleep awaits. There is a time for everything. Look, ju...

"Wait" (poem) - Galway Kinnell

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Wait, for now. Distrust everything, if you have to. But trust the hours. Haven’t they carried you everywhere, up to now? Personal events wil...

"To the Young Who Want to Die" (poem) - Gwendolyn Brooks

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Sit down. Inhale. Exhale. The gun will wait. The lake will wait. The tall gall in the small seductive vial will wait will wait: will wait a ...
Thursday, March 02, 2023

Mary-Frances Winters - 4E Model of Inclusion

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Exposure Experience Education Empathy Then audit / scan for Effectiveness. Winters Group - Inclusion Solution

Everyday Grace (poem) - Stella Nesanovich

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It can happen like that: meeting at the market, buying tires amid the smell of rubber, the grating sound of jack hammers and drills, anywher...
Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Meditation - Isn't This Surprising? - David Steindl Rast

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Tonight’s meditation come to us from David Steindl Rast, a 96 year-old author, scholar, and Benedictine monk.  He offers, “we [need to] wake...

For Joy by Jan Richardson (poem)

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  You can prepare but still it will come to you by surprise crossing through your doorway calling your name in greeting turning like a child...

Chalice lighting - Kristin Famula

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  (quoted parts from “The Aesthetics of Joy”)   “Research shows that small bursts of positive emotion  can help reset the body…” “can reset ...
Monday, December 12, 2022

Oppression

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 Last Friday, I received a check to pay me for 8 years of work that I did but was paid less than a man working at the same level. The check ...
Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Become a lighthouse (poem) by John Roedel

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after you survive your storm you simply must try to become a lighthouse my love, your scars are meant to burn so bright that they will help ...
Wednesday, November 09, 2022

Speed (poem) - Lynn Ungar

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One thing you might love is the way all things move, the varied pulse that drives beings to grow. The moss creeps forward season by season, ...
Tuesday, November 08, 2022

Driving Meditation

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 [Tapping forehead] I am smart and can bring value if I stay present. [Tapping right cheekbone] I can stay present and accept what's her...
Monday, November 07, 2022

Searching

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 I crumpled into tears at Sunday Chatter last week. V.B. Price was doing the spoken word portion. He read his Christmas poems for this year....
Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Grounding (meditation) by Jess Reynolds

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On my worst days, it is gravity I am most grateful for: the way the earth pulls at me from her core, yearns for me, keeps me pressed tightly...

Why am I here?

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  Because I signed up.  Because I sign up. Because I need help and support living well, finding meaning.  Because I find meaning here. Becau...
Saturday, October 01, 2022

Brave

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I've been listening to a lot of We Can Do Hard Things podcast with Glennon Doyle. And re-reading Untamed.  I think I just haven't be...
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