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A piece of courage
Posted on February 28, 2024 Leave a Comment
You may be familiar with a description of courage that says: Courage isn’t the absence of fear. It’s feeling the fear and doing it anyway. There was a very specific time in my life, an entire lifetime ago, where this got me through each day. Sometimes each moment of each day. I will be forever […]
Patience as a spiritual practice
Posted on February 21, 2024 Leave a Comment
Impatience is a regular thief of joy. chani nicholas Where in our lives are we impatient? When do we find ourselves in a situation that we wish were different, and we are perhaps a bit out of sorts? Maybe it’s being stuck in a standstill drive-through. Could be during monotonous days of weather involving a […]
When righteous anger no longer serves
Posted on January 31, 2024 2 Comments
I do not choose to be victimized twice by carrying negativity, hate, and unresolved feelings toward _____. ghandi, via susan lander I’ve been equating righteous anger with learning to stand up for myself. Learning to not continue to allow myself to be taken advantage of, in my personal nature. And that’s been great; yay, me. […]
Aha…
Posted on January 24, 2024 Leave a Comment
I do not need to make myself tiredin order to give myself a rest. she said to herself, she said Oh, wow. I wonder where else I might revisit how I see things…?
Awkward…
Posted on January 17, 2024 Leave a Comment
I was having a conversation the other day with an acquaintance, the kind where we begin with, “How have you been?” And they started talking about the painful plantar wart that they finally had removed recently. Which is totally fine, of course. After all, I did ask. But there was this moment of “Wait. What?!?” […]
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