Things Happen
And this is how it is: life is given. It ends, sometimes over a long haul journey to the end; and sometimes, in sudden death. Neither path is easy for the one who stands by to make this last walk with the one who departs.
Dis-appearance
When the warmth and care depart from the realm of the senses, then what is left is the essence. Not the residue of the being, but the essence.
Patience and Creativity
A gift of creativity arrived with no words - an answer to a request made weeks ago for something beautiful, peaceful, and creative.
Fog
The basics: people need food and shelter. Then they need a way to see meaning in daily living (without this, the fog can really set in!). Beyond that, human beings need their spirits to return to a place of seeing the essential in caring for one another - and not just in material ways.
Road Reflection
One is blessed if surrounded by people who keep "the news" at arms length, and are actually more focused on the engagement in living. While it is important to be informed about events in the world or community, it is more important to be a part of the energy that offers hope, connection, and inspiration.
Breakthrough
In this life, all the events and relationships will invite the shell to harden as hopes and disappointments come and go.
Ceremony
Humans have so many ceremonies to mark our relations - those of spirit, of life, of love, of birth, and of milestone events along the way.
Recover
One knows: life is not just about earning your way to ensure you will secure food and shelter. There is something more - and the search for meaning and service opens the door to begin this journey.
Below
Children's stories are a gift to adults who get caught up in the "practical realities" of life and living.
Next?
We enter the world unknowing and yet unconditionally accept whatever comes next.
Teachers
The only opportunity each one has to encounter reality is to recognize the door that waits to be opened. Once one notices, a teacher will arrive. It is in the noticing that the guide will appear.
Everywhere
The invitation is everywhere - and imagine if one were to accept the many gestures that come along inviting one to recognize joy and beauty? What a world it would be.
From Nothing
Buried in the pace of life and the demands of responsibilities just to live day-to-day can be an obstacle to the path toward settling into who you are at the core.
Exercise Tolerance
The inability to tap into this quality, is to fall into a pattern of constantly intervening, fragmenting the flow of life.
Warmth
The warmth is not just in the temperature swings we live with; but also in the ways in which we see each other, work with one another, care for others as part of caring for ourselves.
As Anticipated
We are not objects which, if place in a particular set of conditions, will act predictably 100% of the time.
Ease
This is something that should always be remembered - what you see is not the whole story.
Take a Leap
That is one of the miracles of being born a human being - a little voice that says, "Impossible? Well let's see about that."
Dream Now
Yes, there are those dreams that turn into nightmares - this too is a part of how it is: there are both welcome and unwelcome events that happen in life.
What if…
What if we could have known how to prevent the damage and how to build something that would nurture rather than nullify life itself?
