Fully Rested
I’ve never been all that great at pretending
that forced laughter meant everything was okay,
that my heart wasn’t raw and bleeding.
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Sabrina Santa Clara
I Did Not Eat an Apple
It is the same old story,
and according to my friends, not specific to me.
Four weeks.
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Love Under The Lean-To
I try to keep love under the lean-to;
give it just enough light so that it does not wither, but
not quite enough to fully bloom because
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Badass
Each time anew,
another practice in letting it go and giving it up.
Surrendering it to the Big Something.
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Be Skeptical, But Learn To Listen
Skepticism gets a bad rap, especially for those of us who follow The Path of Lovingness. To be skeptical is not to be beady-eyed and always looking for the wrong. As the root of scientific inquiry, skepticism is more about…
Always Do Your Best
The fourth agreement is Always Do Your Best. The first three ask a lot of us. This one asks how much of ourselves we actually have to give them today. Always doing our best doesn’t mean we need to get…
Don’t Make Assumptions
The third agreement is Don’t Make Assumptions. The second, Don’t Take Anything Personally, asks you to watch what you let in. This one asks you to watch what you make up. We make assumptions every day, all day long, and…
Don’t Take Anything Personally
The second agreement is Don’t Take Anything Personally. The first, Be Impeccable With Your Word, asks you to watch what leaves your mouth. This one asks you to watch what you let in. Personally comes from persona, the mask an…
Be Impeccable With Your Word
The Four Agreements are Toltec wisdom guides as popularized by shamanic teacher and healer Don Miguel Ruiz. The first, “Be Impeccable with Your Word,” speaks to our capacity to have integrity with our words. Impeccable is a heavier word than…
You Already Know This. You Will Learn It Again.
I write these blogs not just because I’m an educator, but because I also need to remind myself what I already know. We don’t live in a world that cultivates awareness, mindfulness, gratitude and a whole host of other qualities…
Is It True? Is It Kind? Is It Necessary?
A sieve is a humble tool. Flour goes in lumpy and comes out fine, and the lumps stay behind on the screen, along with the odd pebble that would have cracked a tooth. The screen holds back what would spoil…
Decide What To Be,
Then Be That
“Decide what to be and go be it,” in that exact wording, is The Avett Brothers, from Head Full of Doubt / Road Full of Promise, 2009. The instruction underneath it is about nineteen hundred years older. Epictetus, in the…