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One M's Musings and Occasional Insights

Sunday, June 30, 2024

Flying dream

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 I've been lucky to have flying dreams on regular rotation.  Most are joyful - flying solves a problem or feels miraculous and so right....

Prayer - the Rev. Gretchen Haley

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Hard to let love in, to do its work on you, healing backward and forward It’s ok to go slow in your letting go In letting your arms fall to ...

What to be grateful for

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Tennis and that feeling of play. Joy in what my body can do. Yoga and that feeling of grounding and reaching that glories in the biggest spa...
Sunday, May 26, 2024

Sonnets to Orpheus, Part 2, XIV (poem) by Rilke, Translated by Anita Barrow and Joanna Macy

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See the flowers, so faithful to Earth. We know their fate because we share it. Were they to grieve for their wilting, that grief would be ou...
Sunday, May 19, 2024

Ritual of Mindfulness

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 The sermon today was about how to take the everyday and turn it into a moment of meaning, when the moment IS the meaning. V.B. Price, in Ru...
Monday, April 08, 2024

Gregory Alan Isakov Concert - Santa Fe - June 16, 2023

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The whole fam went to see Gregory Alan Isakov at the Bridge in Santa Fe. We saw Martin and Julie Heinrich and our neighbors! San Luis Berth ...
Sunday, April 07, 2024

Gregory Alan Isakov concert - March 9, 2024

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Umea and I went to this concert at the Kiva Auditorium, and it was magical. I ugly cried at just how beautiful the music was. Setlist: Befor...
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...
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