The first voice you hear in your head sounds like you, but it’s probably someone else. Don’t trust it. –Dan Rockwell I had a burning itch to cut my hair short around the time I gave birth to my daughter. In fact, I was eager to try out some edgy hair cuts that included shaving […]
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You know when it’s no longer “business as usual.” The old way doesn’t serve you any more. I think of the pupa (caterpillar) that eventually packs itself into a tiny cocoon. The caterpillar (worm) already has the genetic blueprint within it for the butterfly the day it hatches from a tiny egg. The way of
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I once embarked on a 21-day cleanse. The details are foggy to me now, but it consisted of drinking only a thin concoction of elemental proteins and quick digesting sugars thrice daily. The objective of this 3-week fast is to “starve out” troublesome bacteria that can be known to overpopulate the intestines. I succeeded at
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The week of my 39th birthday, I encountered the story of a woman and mother who died at age 39 in 1965. Her name was Viola Liuzzo. She was shot by members of the Klu Klux Klan in Selma, Alabama while transporting a black teenager in her car. She had just participated in a march, led
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So many esoteric teachings compare our lives in some form to rivers. Rivers flow and stagnate, expand and contract, flood and run dry, wind and merge, and lead always, invariably to the ocean… Rivers also fall. Rivers drop in small trickles between rocks and they fall in deafening torrents from dizzying heights. The places where
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An excerpt from my journal entry November 14, 2022: ______________________________________________________________________________________________ “It’s Monday morning. The day is already crying out–Busy THYSELF! But my mind has been begging me for days for an offload. The fat gray cat is back. I’ve seen glimpses [of it] and pet it from time to time. It has been sauntering around,
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