Category Archives: paying attention

Charles Bukowski: Consummation of Grief

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? I even hear the mountains the way they laugh up and down their blue sides and down in the water the fish cry and the water is their tears. I listen to the water…

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Tarot Journal #63: 19 The Sun/ Seven of Swords/Queen of Swords

Taking Tentative Steps Toward Inclusion At the Unitarian Universalist Church I attend, we are studying the idea of covenant, committing to work together on the project of a shared life of service to a community based on love, respect, and … Continue reading →

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Tarot Journal #62: The Aeon: 3 of Swords: 3 of Wands (Virtue): Three of Cups.

Working Toward My Own Private New Year Lately I feel I have been tying up some loose ends of a period in my life that I have been slowly moving out of. I am unsure what I am moving into, … Continue reading →

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Being Mindful of the Invisible Life All Around Us

“The earth is dominated by microorganisms. It can be difficult to appreciate this fact for obvious reasons that these forms of life are invisible to the unaided eye. We see plants and animals and interact with them in a deliberate … Continue reading →

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Valarie Kaur: Forgiveness

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Forgiveness is not forgetting: Forgiveness is freedom from hate. Two days after nine black people were massacred by a white supremacist in a historic black church in Charleston in June 2015, their family members showed…

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