Inner and Outer Peace
During this holiday season and for the coming year, may you have inner and outer peace in your world. And may you and all the beings we share this beautiful planet with be safe, healthy, nourished, and loved.
Thoughts and Insights
Thanksgiving Blessing – It’s Complicated
Thanksgiving Blessing – It’s Complicated I wish you a peaceful Thanksgiving holiday. Whether you are alone or with a big group. Having a Friendsgiving or a traditional family gathering. If this holiday brings you joy and especially if it is painful. I offer you my wishes for peace, safety, health, and enough of everything you
Custom Ceremonies: Alone or Together are Powerful and Accessible
Custom ceremonies, alone or together, are powerful and accessible. Common and Uncommon Ceremonies Some occasions worth marking with a ceremony are familiar: births, marriages, deaths. Some are not given deliberate attention in a ritual way as frequently: more subtle life transitions, divorce, career change, new ventures, grieving, cutting ties or forging new ones. House blessings
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Arachnophobes, Don’t Read This! Halloween, Samhain, Spiders & Denial
Arachnophobes, Don’t Read This! Spiders, Halloween, Samhain & Denial. There are some extraordinary spider decorations up for Halloween this year. Most people find spiders a little spooky. Is it because they’re so different from humans? So many legs perhaps? The way they move? Have you seen any close-up photos of their faces, though? Some are
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Paying Attention is Excruciating: We Are Not Special. We Have Been Gifted
Paying Attention is Excruciating: We Are Not Special. We Have Been Gifted. Paying attention is excruciating. Years ago, I wrote an article titled “Electric Shocks or Sitting Quietly? Which would you choose?” In the study I referenced, more participants chose electric shocks over sitting quietly with their thoughts. Meditation is hard. Our inner landscape can
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