Tag Archives: awareness

What you don’t know about me

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Kathy

Still pondering what isn’t spoken, what isn’t shared on our blogs and with casual acquaintances. What don’t I share here? What words aren’t uttered and why? I spend most days deeply contemplating spiritual questions. Looking at things deeper and deeper … Continue reading →

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The holiness of Santa, Merlot and angel pink spoonbill wings

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Kathy

I don’t know a lot. Years ago–exactly at age eleven, sprawled out on the scratchy orange and black upholstered chair in our family room–I remember thinking very assuredly, “I know everything there is to know.” That little preteen really thought … Continue reading →

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Sunrise in silence

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Kathy

Sunrises and sunsets sometimes take our breaths away. Our chattering thoughts quiet. We sense the divine, the sublime, that which rises and sets beyond our ordinary perceptions. A friend on Facebook this morning posted her own sunrise photo accompanied by … Continue reading →

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Who do you think you are anyway?

Posted on August 16, 2012 by Kathy

Many years ago I drove our maroon Buick south through green forested highways, south through industrial Green Bay, further south past the mall in Appleton, Wisconsin.  I became hopelessly entangled in a web of Milwaukee streets and shivered in neighborhoods … Continue reading →

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Presence

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Kathy

Do you sometimes practice Presence? Listening to birds sing in trees, feeling sandals on gravel, seeing shades of green thimbleberry leaves. When thoughts arise, watching them. Sometimes, if a thought snags you like a thistle burr, you label it “thought” … Continue reading →

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Sitting cross-legged by the burning wood stove

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Kathy

As many of you know or don’t know, I spend lots of time meditating here in the woods. Meditation started seriously for this one in 2003. Since no formal teacher materialized to teach me, I started sitting cross-legged on the … Continue reading →

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Web of life

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Kathy
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Heaven on earth (Good Friday & Earth Day musings)

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Kathy

When you look up Heaven on earth It’s an overcast morning.  The skies are gray with weeping clouds.  (Although the clouds have been overwhelmed by a rising sun and the sky looks orange behind that eastern spruce tree outside the … Continue reading →

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The last time I talked with a dead person

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Kathy

The last dead person I talked with was a year and a half ago. You have all talked with the dead, haven’t you? It’s quite easy.  All you have to do is get yourself out of the way.  You know, … Continue reading →

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If a leaf fell in the forest and you were perfectly silent…would you hear it?

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Kathy

As Jalaluddin Rumi said: Why are you so afraid of silence? Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void, a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear.             Silence is … Continue reading →

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