Her Face Still Lights Up
I am only able to visit her now
about once every six weeks.
My eldest sister,
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May My Heart Be Open
May your heart be open
May your words be kind
May you see the face of god
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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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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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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…
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…
14 Ways To Soften Worry
Humans worry. There’s no getting around it. We are biologically predisposed to have negative thoughts, images and emotions in order to plan for anticipated potential threats. Somewhere back in the long dark of our becoming, the ones who scanned the…
Why Be Humble?
What if everyone was my teacher? What if not only those I respect, but everyone had something to teach me? What if the lover who just left me, the person who cut me off while driving, the people who irritate…