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An older woman once told me to pay attention to the moments of my life that I would miss this one day then I worried myself with the paying of attention and what did I not pay attention to in the past and what would I miss in the future so instead, I let go […]
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Let Go
Let go of what you hold on to so tightly, this tightrope of control you walk when the ground below is there to love and support you. Let go. Let go of what you hold on to – the reasons conjured that give you the false idea of safety. Take a deep breath. Breathe […]
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Living Without Expectation
There is the five year plan, the ten year plan. It is all well to plan if we find joy in it, but what if we did so without expectation? What if we lived altogether without expectation? What does that look like? It means joy in the action-taking, not in the preconceived idea of […]
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An Opening for Something New to Be Born
When faced with a time that is full of change – a time of shift and rotation and unexpected turns of events – life can seem to have almost taken over and put us on a course that has taken us by surprise. Change is a certainty, but we sometimes cannot prepare ourselves for what […]
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Life from Within
Okay, let’s play a little game. I am going to start a sentence and I want you to pick the option that would most likely follow. Okay, here goes: “I have decided to follow my heart and…” “…become a tax attorney.” “…take an extra shift at my job.” “…move to Patagonia to climb and write.” […]
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The Start of My Path
I was twenty-two years old on my way to a job interview when my car broke down. I was about a quarter-mile outside of the first town on a long stretch of nothingness, about ninety minutes away from home. I had just graduated from college with a marketing degree and was looking for my first […]
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Our Journey Back
What we are looking for is a way of experiencing the world in which we are living, that will open to us the transcendence that informs it, and at the same time, informs ourselves within it. Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth The needs of life. When we are infants, they are as […]
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Clarity in the Quiet
I began to feel the pull in late spring and by the beginning of summer, it came to feel like a full-on tug of war. If you have ever had an event – the feeling in your stomach of anticipation – I had this feeling many times before soccer games, before trips to locations I […]
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On Enough
The cream almost empty, but the jiggling of the carton proves enough for morning coffee. The broken shoelace, but if removed from one eyelet, enough to tie for a run before buying new. The market flowers lovely, but the wild ones by the side of the road fill my pitcher. The tiny hole in the […]