Tag Archives: love

Light Years

8 Minutes worth of light. If you turned the Sun off, if the light just stopped, we would have 8 minutes of “light” left here on Earth.   When you looked up after that the sky would appear just like it … Continue reading

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5 Years Later

As I lay down upon the board I am on my back, floating.  Drifting in a small cove on a lake so recently kissed by an early summer cloudburst.   I am centered on the board as if on a … Continue reading

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Take Heart

May 31st.  2013.  I have been here now for 41 and 1/2 years.  I have two children.  One of them is sleeping next to me, bundled up in her sleeping bag.  The black and yellow surface reflecting the light from … Continue reading

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Poem: Slow it Down

I had a teacher once, who was a student, she made my wise words into fool’s errands. When I looked into what she reflected I saw how I was nothing more than a child wearing my grandfather’s clothing, pretending to … Continue reading

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Saying Yes to Love

And the thing with love is that you have to be willing to not know what the hell you are going to do about it…. You just need to be willing to say yes. And what scares people away from … Continue reading

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Dialogue

Recently I had an email exchange with someone who had asked me about becoming energetically sensitive to others…to the point of feeling in one’s body what was happening in the other’s body.  Also of having the people in our lives … Continue reading

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Meteorites, Powerlessness and Idolatry

A client/friend posted the quotation below today on Facebook.  We used to work a lot via email and I had emailed this to her in response to a question.  When I read this I was struck by what was in … Continue reading

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Poetry: Crescendo, a life played by piano

The season of Fall soars nowhere, grey doesn’t speak in colors, ravens gather indecisively. It can feel like that sometimes…until the light comes Light, is the warm voice of our restless sun. Like the fiery speech of a dancer’s body. … Continue reading

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Choose Love

I’ve got a thing that never goes away.  It knows no sabbatical.  It has tenure.  It is like a heartbeat.  No matter what the rest of me is doing, it is lub dubbing, thump thumping, away. It doesn’t matter what … Continue reading

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White Christmas 2012

This is Christmas Eve of 2012. We just got home from a family ski vacation in Snowshoe, WV.  Here is how it went, not necessarily in order of occurrence.  And it is pared down quite a bit.  I have presents … Continue reading

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