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• What’s your work in the world?
• Life blooms because of you
• I have new videos on my website
• My book is available on Amazon

Dear Lover of the World,

As I was making my bed this morning I was thinking about the relationship between fun, childlike sensibility and beauty.  I reflected that the childlike perspective is one that’s open, discovering, interested, amazed. My thought was that – with this perspective –  it’s possible to see beauty and delight all around me and at any time.  

I went next to my meditation room to begin my morning contemplations and ruminations.  Still thinking about childlike sensibility – about what it looked like in the adult world – I settled myself to begin my morning time.  Reaching for a Mary Oliver book of poetry called Thirst that lay on my footstool, it opened to this poem that was a delightful continuation of my solo conversation.

Messenger

My work is loving the world.
Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird –
equal seekers of sweetness.
Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums.
Here the clam deep in the speckled sand. (more…)

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• Meeting a specter on the road
• Asking “Why have you come back?”
• A wonderful, wonderful answer
• I have 6 new videos on my website

Dearest Forgiver of Impossible Things,

Sometimes, especially lately, we find ourselves walking down our own road – reasonably content perhaps – facing forward, headed into the known or unknown as the case may be, when we encounter another going the other way, carrying a great burden.

They seem a stranger but there’s something uncannily familiar in their face. As we pass shoulder-to-shoulder, the center of gravity of their burden suddenly shifts to our shoulders, spinning us ‘round into its sucking draft.

If this happens to you, quite suddenly you find yourself following a piper of the unpleasant past, listening to dissonant tones. Your forward view forgotten, the past rises up like specters of woe or pain.

What looms may be as yet unforgiven – a betrayal by another, or perhaps a memory of yourself in the errors of your own ways. Even those you have forgiven are sometimes seemingly back again. Maybe it’s a criticizing parent or an unloving spouse, a past tormentor. They plague and wrestle with you, bending your mind away from its forward axis. (more…)

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• A mini-altar moment
• Feeling the Fullness
• My new book is available on Amazon!!

Dear Play Pal,  

We’ve had some longer reads here lately.  Time for a change of pace – a short but fun message.  One of the funny things I do around my house is make little impromptu altars all over the place.  This one happened when my flowering anthurium plant fell over and one of the stems broke.  These flowers last a loooooong time, both live and cut.  So I popped in a pretty shot glass someone gave me, added a couple other items and created a contemplative mini-altar tableaux.  It’s cute, isn’t it?  When I pass by it makes me smile and a smile is such a great meditation.

When I create these little altars I often ask Spirit for a message to put beside it to read from time to time.  Here’s the message I got for this teeny altar moment. (more…)