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Meditation: Water

I rinsed the pot. Used my hand to reach in and scrub off the coffee grinds and oils. The water ran cool over my hand and then I felt the water. It swirled around my fingers. It rushed out of

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Discovery: Angel bird

I noticed a mama cardinal swoop up to the chain link fence and then hop into the top most part of my over-ambitious rose bush. I looked closer and saw that there was a nest hidden behind the ovate leaves,

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Inspiration: more on gravity

Actually, just a little more on gravity, in a poem. Do not entertain vertigo or hug the mountain. Put your weight away from your instincts and surrender to gravity. Any true journey is harrowing, the arrival exhilarating. It takes style

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Meditation: Well, it’s raining and it’s Monday.

This morning as it rains. As I was woken up by what sounded like a weather warning radio. As I was hoping to sleep a bit more. As I found out my half and half has gone bad. As I

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Discovery: Blessings of Eros

May the words of love reach you and fluster your held self, The way a silhouette of breeze Excites a meadow. When you are touched, May it be the gentleness you desire, Your lover’s hands sending Each caress deep into

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Inspiration: Gravity

Why am I inspired by the weakest fundamental force? Gravity is how I connect and ground myself.  Imagining how my body interacts with it on a cellular level is how I create the centeredness and groundedness to do the type

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Meditation: I know about wind

She wrote, “I don’t find wind terribly interesting.” I didn’t know how she could say that. I twirled that phrase around and asked myself if I could ever make a claim like that. Not terribly interesting? Wind? This morning when

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Discovery: Karla McLaren and emotions

Karla McLaren changed my life 7 years ago with a book she wrote called Your Aura and Chakras. The practices she outlined helped me firm up energetic and emotional boundaries that had been weak to non-existent for most of my

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Inspiration: Douglas Dunn

“Modern dance is retrograde. It sees the complex body/mind as a temple to be dwelt in, lived from, revered. It says that any possible spiritual progress must emerge from an unembarrassed body. Thus we are un-Christian. We are not afraid

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Meditation: A Sunday morning

I’m puttering around the house, vaguely aware of a perpetual list of things to do. One thing done, another jumps up. Wash clothes, fold towels, walk dog, clean kitchen. I sigh. In between the lists and this breath I see

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