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English - Presence, Gratitude, Mindfulness

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Life Notes · 3W ago

To Live as a Flower

So, finally the end has come. Exhausted, I have fallen to the ground and it is only a matter of time before I will lay rotting within its moist soil. My life was brief and filled with toil; I knew only service and the comings and goings of so many who took what little I had and gave it to others. I

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Life Notes · 2M ago

Accepting the Unacceptable

A CNN broadcast stopped me in my tracks one evening last week as I walked through the den on my way to put away laundry. Appalling images from Syria were on the screen, images from a country in turmoil where, in a scenario that has plagued mankind since the beginning of time, individuals with power

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Life Notes · 4M ago

When Darkness Descends

Doom. Gloom. Darkness has descended and the world has lost its color. Your world is black and white. It is either all good or all bad and today Bad has smacked you in the face and stands sneering at you, glaring. Even the will to struggle seems to have evaporated. What to do? Do nothing. I know,

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Life Notes · 5M ago

My Life as a Swinger

Dust flew as my feet hit the ground. The dragging motion every time I reached the well worn middle slowed me down until it was safe to jump off. Mom had called me in for supper or my best friend wanted to play with me on the seesaw or it was getting dark-- for any of a number of reasons the swing a

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Life Notes · 7M ago

On the Sweet Where You Live

People are sweet. I don't mean just the obviously kind, helpful and loving people, I mean all people. Beneath all the posturing, all the positionality, all the sticky icky stuff and habits that might indicate otherwise, people are just downright sweet. Now, granted, you can encounter some very finel

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Life Notes · 8M ago

A Body of Evidence

OUCH! That hurts!! Suddenly we are in touch with our bodies. We touched the hot skillet, we missed the nail and hit our thumb with the hammer, we fell off the ladder and broke our leg, we did any one of a number of things we humans routinely do to cause ourselves physical pain. Or perhaps we did not

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Life Notes · 9M ago

Two Buckets, Two Ways

1. Jack and Jill went up the hill. They didn't know each other, mind you. In fact, they wouldn't have noticed each other at all if Jack hadn't stopped abruptly to look at the clouds, causing Jill to plow into him and drop the bucket she was carrying to market. Jill's bucket was dinged up pretty badl

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Life Notes · 9M ago

Party Time

I've been at this party for quite a while, it seems. I glance at my watch. It's a quarter past sixty-two years old. It's getting late. So, I went to this party. It was quite a huge party-- lots of guests coming and going, entertainers, refreshments, dancing, interesting discussions, a few argu

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Life Notes · 10M ago

Wake Up Caller ID

Have you noticed? There are teachers everywhere. The grocery store is full of them, the gym, the library, the mall, the bank, the gas station, the office, north of here, south of here, in state, out of state, everywhere. It's strange how I had not noticed them before. In all fairness I was so busy,

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Life Notes · 10M ago

The Last Place You Look

My dad had an impish, goofy sense of humor. He was fond of observing people, not to judge them in any way, just out of sheer fascination. He was famous in our family for going to Disneyland and spending a lot of his time there just sitting on a bench "to watch people". One of the many things that ti

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