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Tag Archives: hope
O Sun, do not desert us (Dancing around ancient Solstice fires into the Now)
Do you hear the ancient drums throbbing inside your limbic brain? Do you hear the cries of long-dead ancestors as they dance around the Solstice fire begging the sun to return? Please come back, please come back, please come back, … Continue reading
Posted in What the Heart Knows
Tagged ancestors, belief, Christianity, faith, hallelujah, holy, hope, limbic brain, love, paganism, prayer, punishment, reward, Solstice, spirituality
33 Comments
Dear Holy, what is the difference between faith and hope?
One of the things I like best about this seventy five day spiritual exploration is that each day the Heart prompts what might be explored. When it was time to write yesterday’s post the Holy giggled. It seemed to want … Continue reading
Posted in What the Heart Knows
Tagged awareness, blogging, faith, heart, holy, hope, love, non-duality, pandemic, prayers, spirit, spirituality, surrender
35 Comments
So done with it, so done with it
Yesterday started smoothly. The engine of the day ran flawlessly through morning’s arms. Until afternoon showed her multiple tattoos and such sadness struck the match of hopelessness. What happened? I fell in the abyss of statistics once again. Many of … Continue reading
Posted in What the Heart Knows
Tagged coronavirus, COVID, emotions, feeling, holy, hope, spirituality, statistics, stats
59 Comments
In-between
Shhh, dear reader. Let’s whisper. Let’s remember. Let’s lower our voices. Because this is the in-between time. It’s in-between Christmas and New Years. It’s in-between gift-giving and a brand new start. It’s in-between the old and stagnant–and the unknown.
Posted in December 2018
Tagged 2018, 2019, birth, Christmas, gratitude, hope, imagination, inspiration, new possibilities, New Years, please, thoughts, unknown
26 Comments
Don’t go believing everything social media says
Please, dear readers, never let your thoughts convince you that Cousin Lindsey or Friend Derek or Acquaintance Daniella has a better life than you. Forget their sixteen pictures of babies, tropical vacations, or happy interludes. Remember that Social Media only … Continue reading
Posted in June 2018
Tagged belief, blogging, despair, hope, inspiration, life, love, social media, thoughts, truth
46 Comments
The space between the end and the beginning
So Christmas hath ended, passed away, disappeared into the ethers. New Year’s approaches, wearing bells and jangles, but she’s still in the future. We’re in between, kids. We’re in between the Solstice and Christmas and Hanukkah and other shining holy-days. … Continue reading
Posted in December 2017
Tagged birth, Christmas, hope, inspiration, life, light, love, New Years, peace, thoughts, writing
22 Comments
Radiant skies & freighter on the way to radiation
I’ve been driving my dear friend Susan to radiation treatment for breast cancer in Marquette several times in these past couple of months. She’s traveled to the hospital for treatment over an hour and a half away from Baraga five … Continue reading
Posted in November 2017
Tagged cancer, freighters, hope, illness, Lake Superior, Lee A. Tregurtha, life, photography, spirituality, thoughts
46 Comments
Hope in darkness
The clock ticks 6 a.m. Outside our Little House in the Big Woods the wind howls fiercely. Father November has thrown a deep cloak of blackness across the breasts of trees and the wood stove sputters in the basement. Barry … Continue reading
Posted in November 2013
Tagged blessings, death, health insurance, hope, joy, life, Obamacare, spirituality, suffering, thoughts
23 Comments
If a leaf fell in the forest and you were perfectly silent…would you hear it?
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
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged awareness, Bible, consciousness, depth, expanse, Hafiz, hope, Khalil Gibran, life, light, love, meditation, pilgrimage, quest, quiet, quotes, Rumi, silence, soul, spirituality, talking
23 Comments