Writing, books, musings, philosophy.
An exploration of how associating with the Earth can sanctify, improve, and transform us. There’s a social media post going around that shows the relative size of the Earth, all the other planets in our solar system, and the sun in comparison to other stars across the universe. Our sun is miniscule in comparison to…
Many of us struggle with the need to always be busy. If we’re doing one thing, we feel we should be doing another. Or we may feel guilty if we take time for ourselves. Where does the drive to be busy come from? And what can be done about it? How do we get relief?…
The following is a free-form writing exercise I used this morning. What started as a tug to write some fiction morphed into energetic sleuthing to uncover the emotional source of some neck pain I’ve had. I started out by pulling up a blank page in Word and writing whatever came … as if I were…
As I mentioned in a previous post, I’m listening to Sacred Earth. Sacred Soul by John Philip Newell, read by Angus King in a delightful Irish brogue. The premise of the book is that all of nature and humanity are sacred. This is an ancient Celtic view which originally blended well with Christ’s teachings, but…
What I’m learning about myself and our property from the book Sacred Earth. Sacred Soul by John Philip Newell and from our own personal earth mentor – a pre-Civil War oak we call, “The Old Woman of the Woods.” Dave and I have been working outside a lot lately. We misjudged our property line and…
Over the last year I’ve been studying a lot of books on quieting the mind and staying in a Christ-like loving space. This quest has largely, been driven by my desire to find peace in a troubled world – inner peace of mind and bodily peace (lowering my blood pressure). I’ve studied these concepts from…
Manifesting your desires doesn’t have to be difficult. I’ve stumbled on an easy, effortless way of manifesting things. It’s not overnight, but it works. I learned it from my interest in cardinals and convertibles. While going through the Rare Faith Mindset Mastery Program a couple years ago, we were asked to set an inconsequential goal….
Most years I pick a theme or a word for the year. If I picked one in 2021, I honestly don’t remember it, but I do have my theme word for 2022. I’ll share with you the process that helped me select this year’s theme word. David and I took our youngest child to Nashville,…
Your True Self is Compassionate, Self-Healing and Wise Have you ever heard the story of the hundredth monkey? In a nutshell… the Japanese conducted an experiment in the 1950’s where they dropped sweet potatoes on sandy beaches of some islands. A young monkey learned to dunk his sweet potatoes in water to make them taste…
One of my favorite nature books is “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer. It’s about Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants written by a scientist who is also a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Kimmerer teaches botany and ecology at a university several times a week. One morning, she surveyed her…
