Fear Is An Opportunity

I just realized the amount of anxiety and fear I live with every day is an opportunity. An opportunity for self-awareness. That is the main thing. Self-awareness. After that, you may or may not really need to do any kind of fancy process to digest or process or transform your fear. Once you are AWARE,…

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How and what I am ~ How and what I wish to be

For some reason I don’t exactly understand, and in no particular order, I feel compelled to write and share these facts about myself. I am a: photographic artist writer visionary healer horse rider dog trainer closet designer botanist tarot reader web-mistress & wanna-be internet-marketing-mistress teacher chef gardener plant ecologist animal lover baker traveler spiritual warrior…

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Calm After The Storm

UPDATE April 17, 2020: I wrote this a few years ago, after a very difficult time for me, that some of you may have witnessed. It is sitting here in my blog as a “private” post which means (I think) that no one can see it except for me. I am going to make it…

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Stay Focused on the Heart

Resist the urge to get overly angry today. Resist the urge to polarize so much that we are unable to work together and make alliances and see whatever it is that our possibly fascist new administration is plotting. Don’t fall prey the polarizing rhetoric on social media and the news. Stay focused on love, see…

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the Mystery

Religion. Spirituality. God. We are religious, or we are not religious. We are spiritual, but not religious. We are atheists. We are agnostics. We pray to Jesus, our savior. We pray to God. We pray but not to anything. We go to church. We meditate. We do yoga. We travel to an ashram in India.…

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Thinking About God

  Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about God. The Beloved. All that is, and all that animates all that is. The One and The Way. The fragmented fullness of your path unfolding. The Living Map. Trust it.

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Headed Straight Into the Storm

There’s a dark cloud rising from the desert floor I packed my bags and I’m headed straight into the storm Gonna be a twister to blow everything down That ain’t got the faith to stand its ground ~ The Promised Land As I prepare to leave Austin this morning and embark upon this Odyssey, the…

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Threshold

I am moving rapidly but easily through layers that feel like gauze, but also like water. The light is shining and I see it above me through a kind of shimmering surface. Movement is effortless and more graceful than the ungainly paddle of arms and legs. My body and mind are synchronized; forward motion happens…

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Spiritual Defined (For The Umaverse)

To start with, I want to be clear. Very clear. About what spiritual is and is not to me, and what I do and do not mean or imply when I use this word. What you are about to read is a personal definition. I am not imposing it on you. But if you want…

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