February 27, 2024 Now we play in clouds and play hopscotch in heaven. ~ Kathleen De Rose, Once Upon A Dream Taking a moment to look about with curiosity is a simple practice my soul recently offered up. I arrived at it through an exercise I learned from Dr. Peebles. When pondering a particular problem, […]

February 21, 2024 My Soul, there is a country Afar beyond the stars… There, above noise and danger Sweet Peace sits, crown’d with smiles. ~Henry Vaughan, Peace   If a certain well-known spiritual assumption is true, many of us are packing unresolved wounds and hidden traumas into this lifetime, to be dealt with before the […]

November 5, 2024 In a hospital bed in her room… my Aunt Millie keeps reaching up for the far corner of the room, whispering That is so interesting. I will go now. ~John L. Stanizzi, Ascension   Many channels, including Matthew Ward, remind us that we are individually, personally ascending, not moving in lockstep with […]

January 27, 2024 Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne I’ve become acutely aware of my distaste for the constricts of time. The way our actions must sometimes match up with the hands on the clock. I’m now tied to giving Brownie food and insulin twice a day, as close […]

January 23, 2024 And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. ~ John Muir Is the current spiritual lesson writ upon the blackboard of my life something I’m just too dull to apprehend? I think I’ve internalized the lessons related to knowing I’m always supported, but I must be […]

January 20, 2024 It never occurred to us that we needed to change ourselves to meet conditions, whatever they were. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions If an individual soul is inseparable from the Universal Oneness, temporarily experiencing Self as a physical being, and the Universal Oneness is unchanging…does that mean that at […]

January 17, 2024 Seek not to oppress the weak by wrongful might;… Care to dispend according to thy store, And in like sort be mindful of the poor. ~William Byrd, Care for Thy Soul as Thing of Greatest Price   It occurred to me that one reason this whole surgery escapade is so disruptive is […]

January 14, 2024 Each moment is a visible agony, And still the godly human nature remains Unharmed. ~Donald Revell, The Glens of Cithaeron   I feel as if my personal cup of trouble is filled to the brim. One more drop and it will begin spilling over. First Brownie with diabetic ketoacidosis and an emergency […]

January 11, 2024 Was it Pascal who said “Almost all our misery has come from not being able to remain alone in our rooms”? Baudelaire thought it might have been, but was not sure. ~ Matthew Sweeney, Alone It’s a heartbreakingly beautiful morning. Are other parts of the world as gorgeous as Santa Barbara in […]

January 6, 2024 There was an earthquake At Where-The-Pine-Tree-Stands. The rocks fell; The people had fear. ~Katherine Kennedy, The Earthquake   There are times when something enormous rearranges itself within my psyche / emotional self, and I can only observe with a detached kind of awe. That’s a new thought! There’s a different way to […]

January 4, 2024 The sight of a dolphin is always / a little bit magical… ~ Richie Hofmann, Dolphin  I think there might be something to this notion that we’re un-becoming the old, as Kerry K put it in her recent video. Driving down State Street and over to Garden, taking surface streets to the […]

January 2, 2024 People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. ~ George Bernard Shaw It’s dawning on me that caring for dependent beings could derail my (admittedly wishy-washy) commitment to hip replacement surgery. I know I need to take elder care into account when planning anything. But […]

December 31, 2023 Some say the world will end in fire… ~ Robert Frost Give yourself a pat on the back, advised a friend. You’ve walked through fire. I hadn’t thought of the last three weeks in those terms, but she’s right. Making medical decisions for another being is trial by fire of a high […]

December 25, 2023 The Knight’s bones are dust, And his good sword rust;— His soul is with the saints, I trust. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Knight’s Tomb   The last two weeks have been a roller coaster. This morning I sit with our newly diagnosed “diabetic” cat, the smaller, brown and white one, whom I […]