2020 – Sunday Blessings – Deep Listening

“Veridical – (adjective) – Truthful.  Coinciding with reality.”  Credit: Spaceweather.com Redefining Values.  Discovering Impersonal Self.  “It is what it is” – is bandied about – but – what does the “WHAT” mean in “it is what it is?”  That’s the starting point this week.  Self-Existing.  There is a Silent Witness Within recording every thought – …

2020 – Sunday Blessings – The Great Pivot

  “The idea that we are independent of nature is a tremendous conceit, and true because we are, relatively speaking, divorced from nature by that very attitude. The constructs of human beings are really no more unnatural than bees' nests, and birds' nests, and constructs of animal and insect beings. They're extensions of ourselves.”  ~Alan …

2020 – And then there was an Earthquake…….

“Justice is not just. Unless you have money, unless you have privilege, it doesn’t work for everybody.”  ~Jaime Harrison (S.C. Democratic Senate Candidate)  The sky is not falling – but – it is changing.  Whether you see madness and mayhem – or – goodness and kindness – out there – it’s always been ‘that way.’  …

2020 – Sunday Blessings – Good Trouble

“We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.  People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that …

2020 – Sunday Blessings – Rx – Good Medicine

"It has been said that people of the modern world suffer a great sadness, a "species loneliness" - estrangement from the rest of Creation. We have built this isolation with our fear, with our arrogance, and with our homes brightly lit against the night." ~Robin Wall Kimmerer (Potawatomi Nation) Bridging worlds – the first step …