by Deb | Jul 17, 2012 | Learning, Mindful and Intentional, Spirituality and Reflection
You can wander in the wrong classroom, And hear great poems lovingly spoken By the wrong professor. And you find your soul -Robert Bly You can take no wrong turns. Every path you take in life is the right one. It just may not be the path you intended, or wanted, or...
by Deb | Jun 27, 2012 | Mindful and Intentional, Spirituality and Reflection
 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 come into the peace of...
by Deb | Jun 20, 2012 | Change, Transition and Transformation, Learning, Mindful and Intentional, Spirituality and Reflection
When it‘s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bridge married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.  When it‘s over, I don‘t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real.  I don‘t want to find myself...
by Deb | Apr 30, 2012 | Connections, Mindful and Intentional, Spirituality and Reflection
When Someone Deeply Listens to You When someone deeply listens to you it is like holding out a dented cup you’ve had since childhood and watching it fill up with cold, fresh water. When it balances on top of the brim, you are understood. When it overflows and...
by Deb | Apr 10, 2012 | Mindful and Intentional, Spirituality and Reflection
“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.” -The Dhammapada Our thoughts and intentions are so much more powerful than we know. I know that when I focus on the negative, my life moves in the...
