Skye Stephenson
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Shadow and Changes
As we look ahead to a new year rising, we can be sure that it will bring change at many levels. By this, I mean nationally. For the United States, writ large. Because, of course, our individual health in never really just individual. It is also impacted by the state of our society and our Continue reading
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Keeping a Journal
Have you ever kept a journal? Do you keep one now? If so, what role does your journal play in your life? Today, I met a friend for lunch at a quaint coffee shop on West River Road in Brattleboro. I was sipping my cappuccino and nibbling away at a delicious almond and lemon curd Continue reading
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Our Dragons
We are just over half way through the Chinese Year of the Wood Dragon. How are you doing? Of the twelve animals of the Chinese Zodiac, the dragon is the only one that is not quite real. At least in the sense of being born, and eventually dying, in a physical body. Perhaps for this Continue reading
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A Card Reading
I was up in Berlin, Vermont visiting my friend Suzanne the other evening when she suggested we do a card reading. She had invited two other friends over – Kathleen and Ellie. Kathleen had brought along a tarot deck. We gathered around a large circular table, and Kathleen placed her deck in the center of 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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What Kind of Stones?
More and more people are paying attention to how the food they eat has been treated. Is this tomato local, or was it grown and shipped from far away? Are the eggs from free range chickens and my milk from cows that can roam around outside? Do the lemons and oranges have colored dye on Continue reading
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The Tao of Haruki Murakami
To seek knowledge is to gain every dayTo hear the Tao is to lose every dayTo lose and to loseUntil one is empty of doing Wei wu wei means nothing not doneTo control the world is to be empty of doingThose who are busy doingCannot control the world. This quote is the 42nd of the Continue reading
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Thank You
Thank you for my brokenness,Thank you for my pains,Thank you for the sacred memoriesthat run through my many brains. Thank you for forgetting me,Or so I sometimes think;Thank you for remembering me,And not giving me what I thought I need. Thank you for the lessons,Tough and challenging to boot;Thank you for the nothingness,Darkness and the Continue reading
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The Spirit of Love
The spirit of loveyou don’t have to look for –you don’t have to cross oceans,you don’t have to follow a distant star. The spirit of lovedoesn’t advertise itself loudly in the news.The spirit of love can’t be foundby reading books on the spirit of love. The spirit of loveis much more intrinsic than that:Since it’s 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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