Here’s a little article that I wrote for my school’s Alumi Newsletter. Did you know that your five year old is capable of taking out the garbage or sweeping the floor, your seven year old can help change the sheets on the bed or put dishes in the dishwasher, your twelve year old can cook […]
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A Thread in the Communion Tapestry
“To paint is easy, to write poetry is easy, but to create a communion with the energy of another, a dancing communion, is the greatest and most difficult art to learn.”~unknown author, Kara shared it with me. Below are thoughts and reflections all relating to this topic of communion. I’ve woven them together along one […]
Shi Shi
Another trip to the coast.
Life Bursting Forth
Another part of my wholeness lately has been a radiant sense of alignment… juicy possibilities and thriving life unfolding and emerging. Here’s a little character I met at the coast the other day. It seemed to speak my language! And roses are blooming in the garden… ahhhhh
Holy Wholes, Including the Holes!
I feel whole. Included in that is a void, a hole… missing that which has been lost, that which is changing. Missing not in a longing way, just in a recognizing a groove that is paved and was once vibrantly filled… and now is near empty… the same rushing current no longer fills its chamber. […]
Hearing, Seeing and Loving
Anne Stadler recently inquired on an email list: I am wondering do you feel “heard”, “seen”, and “loved”—even by the people with whom you are conversing? Do you feel you are engaging fully (using all your intelligences!) with each other and the whole in this exploration? Many inspiring responses have emerged… and here is what […]
Integrating Man’s Control of Order with Nature’s Mastery of Order
If you’re in the Seattle Area, I highly recommend a trip to this year’s Seattle International Children’s Festival to experience contemplative juggler, Thomas Arthur May 17 – 19. For a taste, you can watch some recent television appearances here and here (for the second one, skip ahead to 31:31) “In a wondrous dance of animate […]