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A Retreat and Some Silence
As I write this article, I am preparing for a spiritual retreat for ten days that will be, in large part, silent. We are also asked to leave behind our cell phones, computers, etc. for the entire time. I realize that this will be the first time in years that I will spend a significant Continue reading
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A Visit to the Peace Tree
It was a warm, for February in Keene. And it also happened to be the first day of the Year of the Snake, by solar calculations. So I decided to get out of the house and take a good, long walk. There were so many things running through my mind right then, about what was Continue reading
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Stoking Our Creative Fires
I have been having a lot of fun lately playing with new ways to stoke my creative fires. For we are all creative beings, although for many of us this joy of creating something can get a bit dampened in the day-to-day challenges of modern-day life. Now creativity I am talking about is not Continue reading
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Careful of the Candles
One of my fondest childhood memories was lighting candles every night before we sat down to dinner. Mom would usually be the one to light the candle. When I learned how to light a match, she would sometimes let me light the candles. What joy! It may be this early memory repeated so many times Continue reading
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Being Light
As we enter this period of increasing darkness in the annual cycle, I have been contemplating what it truly means to hold the light within the darkness. And how we can strive to be lighter, in the truest sense of the world. A Brazilian song I recently rediscovered has given me a fresh perspective on Continue reading
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A STRANGE KIND OF MILESTONE
By the time you will read this, I will pass a very significant milestone. Well, two. One is my 65th birthday – which I am proud to admit to. The second is outliving my father, who died just short of his 65th birthday: thirty-eight years ago. His name was James Stephenson, and during the course Continue reading
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Take Time!
Take time! That is the message I got last night from an ayurvedic website called Banyan Botanicals. I had googled them about what to do for adrenal fatigue – which I was feeling creeping upon me with a heavy hand for more than a week. Ache in the lower back, around the kidneys. Challenge getting Continue reading
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Those We Have Lost
Loss is a natural part of life, of all life. It is the other side, the necessary complement of birth and creation. But sometimes loss, certain kinds of loss, can feel raw and chaffing, unresolved and aching, painful and disconcerting. We may try to put a band aid upon this wound, hoping to cover it, Continue reading
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Violets, Weeding and Fear
This year, violets have overtaken my garden. From just a few in one area of my garden last year I now find these seemingly dainty plants with their heart shaped leaves throughout my garden. I have learned that they spread by rhizomes, or underground roots. I started gardening only a few years ago and still Continue reading
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The Seasons in our Lives
I love springtime. Ever since I was a child, it has been my favorite season of the year. I recall my utter happiness when the crocuses would first pop up along the roadside on my hometown in Connecticut and I just knew that my heart would open wide and I could soon be running around Continue reading
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