Tag Archives: My Life

Learning Compassion from a Younger You

This morning I had a dream about a wind storm that was lifting and rocking an old farm house in the middle of a city on a dark night. I was a young man in a large bedroom with a … Continue reading

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a yellow rose in October

This tiny bush at the end of our driveway is so abused and neglected, and still it managed to produce one perfect rose in the middle of a damp stormy October. Bright and miraculous, it is a tiny bit of … Continue reading

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Invincible Summer

“In the middle of winter I found that there was within me an invincible summer.” Albert Camus This week and much of this month I have been falling into old patterns of thought. I have been feeling overwhelmed and harried, … Continue reading

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Self Experiment #3

I need to spit this out in a vague form as I am just headed out to work, but the gist of it is, I need to step back somehow and assess my attitude toward my life. It’s the kind … Continue reading

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A little Woolf and a little White: a Better Day

“I shall care little for the tastes of this world if the skies are still so glorious. Such expanse and majesty and illuminations, I have never seen, pure air and then such cloud conglomerations.” Virginia Woolf There were such glorious … Continue reading

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