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 Now it's December, and I'm still struggling with dark spirits. Atheist Christmas Carol Me to the season: Don't forget, I love, ...

Today, everything feels like too much. Too many things to do. Too hard. Too much energy needed to overcome the inertia of despondent now.  T...

It's been a whirlwind fall. I've been co-teaching a class at UNM, which is so fun but soaks up all my "free time." Teachin...

So I can’t save the world – can’t save even myself, can’t wrap my arms around every frightened child, can’t foster peace among nations, can...

I am working on a small service for Wednesday evening. This is a 30-minute online Vespers, a time for poetry, song, and reflection. My theme...

I'm keeping an intention to fold in physical activities high in my consciousness. It still hasn't turned into action much, but the r...

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 ...

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