“Imagination of peace…”

Recently, my college roommate sent me a link to this site: Let’s Say Thanks Regardless of your thoughts and feelings about the war, we all have an opportunity to send holiday cheer to men and women who will be away from their families and loved ones during this holiday season. When I think about what [...]

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“Inspiring the sacred…”

Summer Solstice. Today at 2:16. I’ll take the opportunity to introduce another dear friend of mine, Elizabeth Cogburn. I met Elizabeth and her husband, Bob, their two daughters Robyn Ann and Maria and Elizabeth’s mother, Kathleen Summit, in 1971. I had been on the road for almost a month–my VW squareback crammed with camping equipment [...]

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“Illuminating revealer…”

Lately, I’ve been pondering the prevailing question we ask one another when getting acquainted…”And, what do you do?” I’ve never found a satisfying answer for this question…possibly because I’ve been self-employed for almost my entire adult life–I did have about 18 months where I received W2 income against commission sales; still essentially I was self-employed. [...]

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“Awakening…”

A RITUAL TO READ TO EACH OTHER If you don’t know the kind of person I am and I don’t know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star. For there is many a small betrayal [...]

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“Exhuberance is beauty…”

FROM PROVERBS FROM HELL You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. What is now proved was once only imagin’d. Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvements are roads of Genius. Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires. The road of excess [...]

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“No coming…No going…”

No coming, no going, No after, no before… I hold you close to me, I release you to be so free, Because I am in you, and you are in me… Because I am in you, and you are in me… – PLUM VILLAGE CHANT –   Lately, there are conversations of death around me. [...]

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“I don’t think, therefore, I’m not…”

You live in illusions and the appearance of things. There is a reality, you are that Reality. When you recognize this you will realize that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all. – KALU RINPOCHE – Yesterday marked the 411th birthday of Rene Descartes who considered himself more a mathematician [...]

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“Beginning with the questions you ask…”

“Answers reflect the past. Questions advise you about the future.” – Margaret Somerville – Asking high quality questions of yourself and others is an art. David Cooperrider says, “The first question you ask is fateful.” And further, that individuals and human systems tend to grow in the direction of the questions they ask on a [...]

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“Can I let you happen to me?”

I collect questions. I like a good question to chew on and swish around in my consciousness. Last summer, I was at NTL with some of my Appreciative Inquiry colleagues and Sheila McNamee raised this question, “Can I let you happen to me?” Now, I know a good question when I hear one…when I’m rattled–when [...]

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Tending to My Nervous System

Suddenly I know the secret of happiness and where to find it! But before I push off to swim toward that shore, I want one final glimpse of my old friends, Darkness and Despair. I want to say out loud, one last time, what doesn’t work, what has never worked, and, what will never work. [...]

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