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Are You The One?

Did you know that squirrels, given a good food supply, can have two litters of baby squirrels a year? Considering that our yard and woods is full of squirrel food of one kind or another, and we have been here for seven summers, that means there have been 14 generations of squirrels born under our [...]

Choose Your Dance Partner Carefully

The movie, It’s A Wonderful Life, is a story about George and Mary. They meet, fall in love, and marry. When George’s father dies, they choose to give up their personal dreams in order to continue his dad’s banking business, a business that has been good to everyone who lives in their community. As is [...]

Of Birds And Bodies

It happened at the airport, and it changed my view of bodies forever. When I wrote my book Living In Grace, the hardest chapter to write was the one on bodies. I didn’t want to write it. I worried that if I said, “We are not our bodies,” not many would believe me, and all [...]

Relax What You Don’t Need

Alone on the floor of the gym, stretching before class, I heard that little-voice-within say, “relax what you don’t need.” I wasn’t surprised. Del has been working with me, and his Taiji classes, to learn how to recognize what muscles tighten in a stretch, and then to let those muscles relax in order to move [...]

Why I want to be like water

As I prepared to write about my desire to be more like water, a gentle mist rose outside my window to remind me of another way that water transforms itself, and yet remains water. Oh how I wish to be more like water — flowing, gentle, patient, consistent, and ultimately always effective in carrying out [...]

Choose A Different View

Arranging a bowl of daffodils for a family party wasn’t turning out how I wanted it to. All the beautiful faces of the daffodils were facing downward. I thought how silly it was that in order to see the flowers everyone would have to sit under the table and look up at them. “Then turn […]

Does Our Thinking Create?

My bluebird’s back. It must be April. We have bluebirds all winter, but this one is different. This bluebird comes to visit every year. He moves between my windows and my glass door, hitting his beak on the glass. Bump, bump, and tap, tap. He is a beautiful, if noisy, reminder that spring has arrived […]

We Aways Have A Partner

Many years ago I belonged to a little dance troupe of ballroom dancers. One morning my tango partner didn’t show up for rehearsal, and that’s when I fully realized how true it is that it takes two to tango. The tango is a balancing act; one dancer supporting the other, and as they do their […]

It’s Time For You To Look Beneath The Leaves

All winter my flower gardens lived under a pile of leaves that I didn’t have time to rake up before the first snow arrived. During what felt like endless winter months, I saw no evidence of anything growing, just snow and wet leaves. One warm day in late winter, when the promise of spring was […]

Finding Something That Isn’t Lost

I couldn’t find my letter opener. I loved it. It was efficient and beautiful to me, plus it had sentimental value because it was a gift from a business community I had helped serve. After searching for it, I reached the conclusion that I probably had thrown it away while throwing away a pile of […]