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Declare war or something else…

                From 11/7/13 She sat. She sat and waited. She sat and waited and wondered. She mostly wondered about love. She wondered where she was right about love and where she was wrong.

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Discomfort

There is this life in a body. Pulling around consciousness. Sometimes entering consciousness, awareness. Definitions of these things? Maybe I’ll come to that. My body is a breathing, walking, bloody, fleshy, boney, liquidy, ligamental, organy thing. Somehow what I consider

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Brief notes: An experience of the present

we are in the present the future rushes towards us or we rush /move/ walk/ crawl /breathe towards the future the past flows out away from us. we tend to visualize this as a passage away from our back. and

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Meditation: “All-informing present”

“When you can no longer detect the all-informing present, you no longer have reason to believe it can offer you guidance.” New Self, New World, Philip Shepherd, p. 220. So this question came up during one of my workshops about

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Brief notes: On watching myself dance

  Knees are bendy. That bothers me for some reason. I don’t know why I think they shouldn’t be. Except. Oh, now I recall these movements of perfection performed by exceptional ballerinas and it seems that all movement is away

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Meditation: Need, necessity, co-dependence, co-creation

My friend Jim Coe wrote in response to a brief Facebook post about bees that I was caretaking being dead: “Sacrificial Species: Bees hatch, develop, work and die so that other life forms, plant and animal, may thrive. Help keep

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Meditation: The present is filled with the past

I have two Farberware sauce pans with lids that I use almost daily. They are the perfect sizes. One is small. Holds 16 ounces easily. Today I boiled water for coffee in the morning and right now a Mason jar

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Meditation: Love and Solace

I so rarely get sick. I have down times and sore times, but rarely deep in bed and lost times. Somehow between Christmas and New Year’s Eve the cold that my family had turned into a deep dive into fragility

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Meditation: I was at the studio yesterday. Moving.

    I was at the studio yesterday. Moving. The music I was listening to was Hungry Ghosts. And it brought out a particular contemplative and connected type of movement in me. I enjoyed it. It inspired very lovely movements

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Inspiration: “It[‘s] just this moment.”

Curious how clarity and presence come to us when we measure ourselves next to the scale of life in the universe. We are small in comparison, but something happens that wakes us up to our vastness in the moment. Time

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