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One M's Musings and Occasional Insights

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Channeling Finnish Happiness

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  Newsweek Article - March 19, 2024 [Paraphrased] 1. Get out in nature. 2. Keep a determination mindset. We can do hard things. Resilience ...
Friday, March 01, 2024

Middle Management in America

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What a tough day. I manage a Division of about 30 people in 4 teams. One of our younger team members -- a really good and smart person -- le...
Sunday, February 18, 2024

Jet (poem) by Tony Hoagland

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and it is good, a way of letting life out of the box, uncapping the bottle to let the effervescence gush through the narrow, usually constri...

Everything is Going to be All Right (Poem) by Derek Mahon

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Derek Mahon, from Selected Poems How should I not be glad to contemplate the clouds clearing beyond the dormer window and a high tide reflec...

Day Off

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 Presidents' Day weekend. House is clean. Tennis lesson done. Travel planned for this summer's half-marathon in the Grand Tetons. A ...
Sunday, February 04, 2024

"In the Moment" (poem) by Lynn Ungar

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You've probably heard the central rule of improv: Say yes... and. Yes, we are on a desert island... and I am a shark. Yes, we are playin...

What you can control...

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 I'm feeling buoyed by the positive changes that I've been able to imagine, set intentions to accomplish, set steps to put in place,...
Sunday, January 28, 2024

"The Next Noel" (poem) by Lynn Ungar

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I don’t know what a noel is, Except that it’s something That angels say, and the first time They said it, was to shepherds Who were out layi...

Quote - Larry Levis - "My Story in a Late Style of Fire"

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"It is so American, fire. So like us. Its desolation. And its eventual, brief triumph."

Quote - Gaston Bachelard - The Psychoanalysis of Fire

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"Fire is the ultra-living element. It is intimate and it is universal. It lives in our heart. It lives in the sky. It rises from the de...

"An Avowal" (poem) by Denise Levertov

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As swimmers dare to lie face to the sky and water bears them, as hawks rest upon air and air sustains them, so would I learn to attain freef...
Sunday, January 14, 2024

Circle of Life

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I did a good job in the past couple years reaching back, reaching out, to key people in my past. I didn't realize how much that also mea...

When all seems dark, what can you do to let the light in?

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Breathe. Feel grateful for blessings. Move. Stretch. Feel grounded and stretch to the sky. Meditate on the miracle of a spark of my perspect...
Sunday, January 07, 2024

What's your burden?

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The question today at church. And an offer: Can you lay it down for a minute? 10 minutes? An hour? For days or weeks or months at a time? To...
Wednesday, December 06, 2023

Blue Christmas

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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, ...
Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Thanksgiving Eve

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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...
Sunday, November 05, 2023

Fall shining

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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...
Wednesday, September 13, 2023

What I Can Do (poem) by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

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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...
Sunday, August 27, 2023

Balance, Longing, and Gratitude

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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...
Sunday, August 06, 2023

Prioritizing Me

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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...
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