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Caminos & Journeys · 11M ago

Peeling Away the Layers

From today’s Daily OM – June 16, 2011. I really liked it. It was a good reminder of how we change as people… Peeling Away the Layers Trees Shedding Their Bark Like a tree our growth depends upon our ability to soften, loosen, and shed boundaries and defenses we no longer need. Trees grow up [...]
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Caminos & Journeys · 1Y ago

Afghanistan Bound

Somehow the beginning of this story may begin with this quote… “I was sworn in by a fool and vouched for by a scoundrel”…No, don’t ask me who the fool and scoundrel are, Top Secret information. My first “directed” assignment is Uruzgan province, Afghanistan.  In a few days I will be packing my ONE b
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Caminos & Journeys · 1Y ago

Remembering MLK

Martin Luther King, Jr. was a great man. Today I am reflecting on some of his words of wisdom, and am reminded how important it is to keep love in my heart, rather than hate and anger.  Reading these again, and holding those thoughts close, being present to them, helps me. It is sometimes hard, [...
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Caminos & Journeys · 1Y ago

This is Love

This is one of my inspirational songs. Enjoy! by Mary Chapin Carpenter If you ever need to hear a voice in the middle of the night When it seems so black outside that you can’t remember Light ever shone on you or the ones you love in this or another lifetime And the voice you [...]
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Caminos & Journeys · 1Y ago

Becoming Buddha

I just returned from my first immersion in a Buddhist center/meditation retreat. My goal was to learn to  meditate. I had recently read Eat, Love, Pray (and really mostly enjoyed the middle section on meditation), and both my sister and stepfather practice meditation frequently. Considering I could
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Caminos & Journeys · 1Y ago

If you’re gonna turn 40, do it in Style!

Troncones Beach. Majahua Palms Hotel. Friends and Family. Grilled lobster, fresh fish,  awesome music, salsa dancing, shell collecting…You can’t beat that. Thanks my dears, for making it the best!                             
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Caminos & Journeys · 1Y ago

Thought for the Day

There comes a time in your life when you walk away from all the pointless drama and people who create it…and surround your self with people who make you laugh so hard that you forget the bad and focus on the good… Life is too short to be any thing but happy.
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Caminos & Journeys · 2Y ago

Exit, Voice and Loyalty

I found this Post interesting. Albert Hirschman, famous economist, explains the relationships between someone who works for an organization that he/she is loyal to, uses his/her voice, demonstrating that loyalty, even in a situation of leaving an organization. He describes how a long term commitment
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Caminos & Journeys · 2Y ago

Porque Amo a Mexico! …Why I love Mexico

La Comida       The Food! La Diversion     The Fun Los Amigos     The Friends       La Musica (pues karaoke mal cantado The Music (a.k.a. badly sung karaoke)       El Baile    The Dancing       El Genio de todo    The Ingeniousness of it all   y no importa el dia, el cielo bonito y [...]
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Caminos & Journeys · 2Y ago

The Peace of Wild Things

by Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I [...]
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