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Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Prayer - The Rev. Angela Herrera

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We give thanks. We give thanks for hope, and that change is possible. We give thanks for this moment, and for our lives. We give thanks for ...

"Ring the Bells that Still Can Ring" (poem) by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

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  (Title taken from the first line from Leonard Cohen’s song, Anthem) “Let this darkness be a bell tower / and you the bell. As you ring, /w...

"How the Light Comes" (poem) by Jan Richardson

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  I cannot tell you how the light comes. What I know is that it is more ancient than imagining. That it travels across an astounding expanse...

"Winter Poem" by Nikki Giovani

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once a snowflake fell on my brow and i loved it so much and i kissed it and it was happy and called its cousins and brothers and a web of sn...
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Sunday, November 24, 2024

Compassion Drill

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 Modified from: "Just Like Me Compassion Practice"  Become aware that there is a person in front of you... A fellow human being ju...
Sunday, November 17, 2024

Purgatory

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We are in the middle of a house renovation to make our master bedroom and bathroom bigger and add a sunroom (read: yoga space!).  That's...
Wednesday, November 06, 2024

What I will work toward

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On the morning after Trump was elected President for the second time, I am trying to find my courage and resolve.  I will work to understand...
Sunday, September 29, 2024

Special Meetings

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 Life has gotten busy again. Teaching, working, mothering, and churching. I've said yes to things that serve me or that I can serve thro...
Thursday, September 26, 2024

How does life get better?

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In the spirit of trusting the great AI in the sky, I typed in "does life get better" into Google search bar, and the first respons...
Thursday, August 01, 2024

Self regulation vs. Emotional regulation

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 https://connectedfamilies.org/equipping-kids-calm-self-regulation/ Self-regulation is the ability to monitor and manage your “arousal stat...

Kamala Harris - Favorite Books

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"[I]n October, Kelly Jensen asked all of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates about their favorite books. Harris, she notes, wa...
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Permission to Feel - Marc Brackett, Ph.D. (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence)

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Website Podcast / YouTube Brene Brown - Unlocking Us Podcast Strategies when you are feeling overwhelmed / out of control (emotion regulatio...
Monday, July 29, 2024

"In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don’t lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down." (poem) - Andrea Gibson

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Whenever I spend the day crying, my friends tell me I look high. Good grief, they finally understand me. Even when the arena is empty, I t...
Sunday, July 21, 2024

Learning from Trees (poem) - Grace Butcher

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If we could, like the trees, practice dying, do it every year just as something we do— like going on vacation or celebrating birthdays, it w...

Reincarnation

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 Today's sermon is about reincarnation, and it's got me thinking about the limits of redefining oneself, starting a new chapter, and...
Sunday, July 07, 2024

Grumpiness

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Trying to have patience with my grumpy set point. I have so much to be grateful for, so I bristle at myself when I start the day - pretty mu...
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...
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