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Butterflies Don’t Crawl

I don’t agree with Leo Tolstoy when he said, “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” Why? Because I don’t think that everyone thinks of changing the world, and many people think of changing themselves. I do agree, as he is implying, that in order for change in the [...]

Beep For What You Need

With my right hand, I was typing away – really one finger pecking away, answering emails – while with my left hand I was pressing a button on my iPhone. I was watering the flowers in my growing flowers app. Just seconds before I had been “beeped” alerting me to the need. Without thinking, I [...]

Delete Bad Memories Like Apps

Setting up our new smart phones took most of the afternoon. We hadn’t planned to spend so much time with them, but the apps were so much fun, and Del kept finding new ones to load and try out. Each little app has a picture icon, and when the icon is touched, a whole idea [...]

Unmask Fear

The black cat and I have an agreement. At least I have an agreement about the cat, and most of the time he acknowledges it. It’s not our cat; it’s a neighbor’s. However, this cat believes that our yard is his territory for stalking. Since I can’t persuade him to stay out of our yard [...]

Interpreting Messages

We stared at him for a long time (we supposed it was a him), and he stared back. It wasn’t a stare-down to see which one of us would blink first: It was communication. The Turtle had a message. Messages are everywhere. We are just too busy, too distracted, too interested in acquiring things, too [...]

What Side Are We On?

Are you often astonished how many loving, and thoughtful, spiritual students, take strident sides on issues in social media? Not the honorable discussion where the best ideas are appreciated and supported; but the taking of sides where we essentially say, “You are wrong, I am right, and my side must win, and your side must [...]

How Spiritual Ideas Provide

In my early twenties, living in small duplex in Venice Beach, CA. with my three small children, I felt as if every day was a struggle to provide for my family. A light in my world arrived when I became a member of a lovely little white church located just around the corner from our [...]

Exploring The Downspouts Of Life

Joining Del on our back porch for our pre-dawn chat, I heard a rustle in the downspout. Del explained that he had heard an animal, probably a chipmunk, in the gutter and then heard it slip into the downspout. I suppose she was exploring. However, she appeared to be stuck because we could hear her [...]

Practicing Perfection

As the world watched the Olympic athletes strive for perfect scores, we celebrated the presentation of perfection. The dictionary defines perfection as “the state or quality of being perfect.” It arises from Middle English (in the sense ‘completeness’): via Old French from Latin perfectio (n-), from perficere ‘to complete’. The definition of perfect is “having [...]

Give Up Being All Things To All People

Although I often remind myself to not multi-task, the truth is, I often unwittingly practice it. The other day I found a food grater I had misplaced a month before. I found it in the basket that holds my running gear. I probably had both things in my hand at one time while putting them [...]