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I always love it when people share a glimpse of what the world looks like through their unique human filter! From another woman who’s easily amazed, Cathy Hayden: A little hummimgbird got stuck in the garageyesterday(with the doors open). The hummingbirdfinally flew out – it was so sweet and delicate. Itmade these little chirping noises […]

Reading the stories. . . In the chaos that was Causeway Boulevard in New Orleans last Thursday, one group of survivors stood out: a 6-year-old boy walking down the road, holding a 5-month-old, surrounded by five toddlers who followed him around as if he were their leader. They were holding hands. Three of the children […]

Patti Flick mentored me in being a school counselor. Being in her presence as she moves through a school of children, one observation is immediate… The children LOVE and ADORE her and she LOVES and ADORES them. As I looked closer I saw it was because they knew without a doubt that she saw them. […]

This is a word for word replication of Christy’s post at Life Cultivating Life. It is projects like this one which I find easily amazing in their living expression of life cultivating life! Michelle and Joel Levey, radiant and soulful friends and mentors, will be two of about 60 professional facilitators working to support the […]

Can I see another’s woe,And not be in sorrow too?Can I see another’s griefAnd not seek for kind relief ? ( William Blake) My professional life takes me into America’s cities. It is there i have come to “see” that there are 2 America’s in our country. Most priveledged folks need never enter these communites…need […]

A question: How do we invite people to be more aware of such experiences as recognizing another’s wide open door, or feeling an internal pulsing that ignites one’s being like effervescence? How do we open space for such awareness? Obviously one route that I enjoy is talking about it, pointing it out… Any practices that […]

Michael Herman posts an email from a New Orleans pathologist, received via a friend of his, via family and collegial connections, and paints a pretty real picture: The city now has no clean water, no sewerage system, no electricity, and no real communications. Bodies are still being recovered floating in the floods. We are worried […]