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Listen to Your Heart
It is drawing you near. Do you hear? The Draw of Your Heart Sometimes my heart feels far far away. And sometimes even when it feels near it seems to be behind a fog. When my heart is distant like this it can feel like I am separate from the world and from myself. But…
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Thank You – You Can Go When You’re Ready
Lessons in Attachment Goodbye, My Sweet Lita My dog, Lita, left this world on Thursday after six weeks (that I knew of) battling cancer. For the last three weeks I was pretty constantly worried about her but I started to worry that she was not letting herself die because of her loyalty to me. So…
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Spells
Every word we speak is a spell A Week of Gratitude Out Loud Day 1: Write your gratitude as normal. When you are done read it out loud feeling your gratitude vibrate through your chest and mouth. Day 2: Call a friend and tell them what you appreciate about them. Day 3: Tell a service worker…
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Loving Attention
love is the quality of attention Choosing Love with Our Attention Love. Falling in love. Choosing love. However you go about it the act of love is so much about paying attention. Generous with our attention. Our gaze elevating what we see into a thing of beauty. Finding that beauty and not only resting our…
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A Recipe for Feeling Alive
Acceptance and Appreciation Throughout What Makes You Feel Alive? It is such an individual thing. What makes you feel alive and what makes me feel alive are probably vastly different. But as I hold my animal companion through her last days I have been thinking a lot about how often it is the simplest things…
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Thank You, Younger Me
That one time … Finding the Good in Ourselves Think about your younger self. All they were and did that brought you to today. Honor these memories with gratitude. Write a little love note of appreciation to your younger self. What a beautiful way to connect with your younger self, your past, your heart, your…
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A Love List
Never finish the list. Let Me Count the Ways Love, like gratitude, is a practice. Every day, every moment is another opportunity to experience and communicate love. Just because we love someone doesn’t mean the act of love is set in stone. We reaffirm it with our thoughts, beliefs and actions every day. And just…
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Fun Matters
😂 Beaming With Joy You know me. I am so damn serious all the time. Well almost all the time. Especially when I am in professional, work, learning and healing modes. But the lesson that has emerged for me recently is fun, smiles, happiness, great big joy for no reason at all. Or for every…
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With Everything You’ve Got
Don’t wait to sing your swan song. The Most Beautiful Song One day when I was a teenager in my parents' house I heard the most beautiful music. It was so intense and complex and captivating that it drew me out of my self-absorbed and friend-obsessed ways. I immediately tried to locate where this music…
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Beautiful but Goodbye
You’re beautiful. I appreciate you. But you’re just not right for me. I Used To Love and Welcome You I used to love this weed you see in the photo with it's delicate lavender blooms and bright yellow stamen. It is a Silver Leaf Nightshade and it grows easily even with no water in our punishing…
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Plot Twist Flow and Feel
I note to myself (and you) to help me flow with these ups and downs. Mijita, Sit down, mijita. Take a breath. It's been a long week. A week of celebration. Feeling the intoxicating bliss of love. Getting into the school program you have been dreaming about for so many years. A week of loss.…
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Love Your Neighbor
What if there was something to love in everyone? Love First Valentine’s Day is supposed to be a day of celebrating romantic love but I have always associated it with my mom and dad and their thoughtful valentines. There are so many types of love in this world. Why don’t we celebrate them all? Today…
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The Flow of All Things
The shape of everything is flow. ~Richard Rohr Choose to See the Flow What possibilities open up for you when you choose to see the flow in all of life? In nature. In seasons. In relationships. In thoughts. In emotions. In love. I went to a talk last night and everything kept coming back to…
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Fall Gratitude Walk
A walk outdoors to deliberately take in moments of beauty. Gratitude Found Take a walk with me as we explore nature and the outdoors. We find gratitude in unexpected places. And remind ourselves to be grateful for things that are easy to take for granted. We explore the concept of unattachment, noticing, appreciating and letting…
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I Thought It Was a Good Luck Spell
Ha! I am not a gratitude witch after all. I Said Thank You Because I Wanted More You’d think I have this gratitude thing figured out by now after six years of this daily practice. But that’s why this is called a practice. There is no point of arriving. It is all becoming. Becoming grateful.…
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So, you want to be a badass?
Oh my gosh. Why is this so scary? Tough = Vulnerable I love the quote this week. It is so very true that the most rebellious thing we can do in a disconnected and harsh world is to show our hearts. Show your heart to your friends. Show your heart to your family. Show your…
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Fall in Love With Yourself
Happy Valentine’s Day! Look into your heart. Look Into Your Heart and See Beauty There is beauty. It is all around. Do you choose to see it? There is beauty. It is you. Do you choose to be it? On this day of love I challenge each and every one of us to fall in…
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Being Grateful Without the Desire to Possess It
Staying grateful through the holidays. A Beautiful Exchange That Inspired Me She complimented me on my earrings. And then she added “they are great on you.” She explained that in many cultures when you compliment something, and seem to be captivated by it, the custom is to give it to them. So she said…
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Honoring Our Loved Ones Who Have Passed Away
Gratitude that is specific and from the heart. What a beautiful way to honor them. On Becoming Beautiful The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and…
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And Then I Learned That I’ve Known Abundance All Along
In a field of tall grass I learned two incredible lessons about abundance. And then as I wrote this I realized that tomorrow I celebrate my 2000th gratitude post! As I wrote this I discovered that tomorrow will be my 2000th gratitude post. I walked into that field and all that grass had grown…