May 6, 2024 For something so small, it wreaks havoc. Feeds on my sweat. Opens old wounds. She hisses demands, and I do nothing but obey. No one sees me, she says. Only you and the choke-chain around your neck. ~Sarah Nichols, The Monkey on My Back   While I was restlessly shifting, trying to […]

April 30, 2024 Forget not the central truth that God is seated / In your own heart. ~ Swami Ramdas Although being mobile again through the intervention of hip replacement surgery is fantastic, I’m still “old” and getting older. So I haven’t forgotten the promise of the med beds. However, having been restored to a […]

April 27, 2024 For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. ~ Vladimir Nabokov I had a most unpleasant day, last Wednesday. It was all about my mood, although I blamed it on the frustrating retail […]

April 20, 2024 No man is an island, Entire of itself; Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. ~John Donne, No Man Is an Island   I’ve been doing little the past seven weeks but burrow into an insular world of post-surgery recovery. Although I feel solitary, I am […]

April 6, 2024 Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism. ~ David Suzuki Not to be shallow, but, now that my “hip pain” is on the wane and easy movement is ascending, I don’t feel nearly as desperate for the solar flare / Ascension […]

March 30, 2024 The best time to write is when your life is in the toilet. Writing offers an escape from your problems, so if you force yourself to write when you’re in the doldrums, it will have the perverse effect of cheering you up…. ~Sabrina Jeffries Is it all right to be on an […]

March 16, 2024 Now, like a strange light breaking from the ground, I venture from the halls of shadowy death— A frail white gleam of resurrection. ~D.H. Lawrence, Resurrection   A welcome somnolence envelops me. Just sitting and being, without feeling subliminally driven, is an experience of wonderment. I feel like I’m melting into the […]

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 […]