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We just got back from a week-long UU kids camp. I've been wanting to go for years; we hear a lot during the year about "camp magic...

Umea asked me if I was ever fun. An old friend asked me what I did for fun. A new friend told me how he fills his days with joy now that he ...

As you breathe, feel how your anxiety is the high strung vibration of too much too fast, and how as you breathe out, you can deepen that ton...

I'm struggling this week with feeling out of balance on multiple tightropes. (Warning: much whining ensues.)  Work feels so overwhelming...

Can we develop the skill of remembering the future? Can we commit to build the community that will extend into a time that we only know by m...

47 seems to be a year of reconnecting with my past. This summer will be my 30th high school reunion. 30 years. I dove into the rabbit hole o...

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

 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...

 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...

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

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

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 ...

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

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...

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...

  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...

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

 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 ...

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 ...