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The Illusion of Control

March 5, 2015

Here in Boston we have suffered a difficult and seemingly endless winter. Frigidly cold temperatures and mountains of snow—over 100 inches in just the last 8 weeks alone! There’s been plenty of collateral damage for many people, in the form of lost work, lost school, lost income, the breakdown of the public transportation system and other infrastructure elements, increased costs for everything, especially snow removal, heat, and repairs, and more—all adding to the cumulative stress that comes with enduring such a long and bitter winter. In the midst of all this I had a quite unexpected … [Read more...]

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Alert and Available

February 13, 2014

How often do you worry about the future?  Or feel stuck or drawn back by something or someone in the past that you can’t seem to get past? Human mind and emotion have a persistent way of distracting us from the present.  We struggle with the business of being human--that is, surviving physically and emotionally--and we think far too much about it, often engendering fear.  This is our nature and our habit, and it is reinforced relentlessly by our cultures (including family, work, and community cultures) and by the realities of survival. We are shaped by our pasts, by our attachments and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consciousness, Full Selfness, Incarnational Spirituality, Inner Awareness, Mindfulness, Self Awareness, Uncategorized Leave a Comment

Leo Rising, Hazel Conjunct: A Lesson in Being Present

November 30, 2010

In this season of thanksgiving, and holiday giving and receiving, I have been appreciating what a gift I have in the constellation of my life:  two very young grandchildren, Leo and Hazel.  Their unrestrained engagement with life reminds me, over and over again, what it means to be fully here, present in the moment. Each, in their unique ways, is completely occupied with their immediate experience and everyone and everything around them, in rich expression, moment by moment.  They are expert at simply BEING. Would that we each could rediscover the fullness of wonder in each moment.  And … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Being, Joy, Sovereignty, Uncategorized, Wonder 4 Comments

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