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Easily Amazed

This is a weblog that I, Ashley Cooper, began writing in 2003. In 2019 the site crashed. All of the content was saved, but the formatting lost. Please forgive the appearance! You can find current content at www.AshleyPCooper.com

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Leave the familiar for a while

Today I open a gate, inviting myself into a journey where I hope to learn more about some of my habitual patterns of relating… relating with myself, relating with others, relating with the internet, relating with time and space…. this list could go on and on… so much relating! I am entering an inquiry. I […]

Posted byashleyDecember 13, 2007Posted inpoetry, WhoIAmLeave a comment on Leave the familiar for a while

Giving Thanks and Turning Four

Four years ago I was working at a Montessori school. In the kitchen during snack one day (the school lived inside a sweet little house), I was being me… getting excited about something… I imagine there was lots of energy and a sense of awe in my expression (wink). A nine year old turns to […]

Posted byashleyNovember 22, 2007Posted inEasilyAmazed, giving, stories, WhoIAmLeave a comment on Giving Thanks and Turning Four

The Journey Continues

Watch out world… I’m 30 and ready to PLAY!! Opening into new waters with gentleness and strength simply being me. Photos from my birthday retreat.

Posted byashleyAugust 27, 2007Posted inImages, WhoIAmLeave a comment on The Journey Continues

A Place That Knows

“There’s a place inside your body that knows the answer.Just go inside and see what you can find.” ~Violet Oaklander

Posted byashleyAugust 10, 2007Posted inImages, WhoIAmLeave a comment on A Place That Knows

Ritual Art

Posted byashleyJuly 11, 2007Posted inRitual Art, WhoIAmLeave a comment on Ritual Art

Emerging Independence

More personal confessions… It’s strange to me how much I “need” to have others validate things that I do or experience, how much I can deny my own experiencing, minimizing it, not honoring the fullness of intensity that is my living or the guided action that emerges from my listening. For example, I’ve noticed lately […]

Posted byashleyJuly 5, 2007Posted inDiscovering, emotions, Love, Mary Oliver, poetry, Quote, WhoIAmLeave a comment on Emerging Independence

Living With an Open Heart

I’m procrastinating. I’m scared. One more bite of toast. One more reason why I’m not comfortable at this table… one more excuse to keep me from going into what is present in me in this moment. Today I must write. Trails of life-lived and life-living are insisting to be formed into words, to be woven […]

Posted byashleyJune 27, 2007Posted inHeart, Images, Love, pain, practice, Quote, Transformation, WhoIAmLeave a comment on Living With an Open Heart

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