Category: Healing

• What Animates & Illuminates?

  3–4 minutes

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  July 28, 2020

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  Colorado, Friendship, Grief, Healing, Ideas, Living Simply, Personal History, Soul Food, Southwestern US, Trinidad

    “This feeling… of alertness to the inner-spirit of things — this humming — comes from a hard-earned understanding of the impermanence of things and, indeed, our own impermanence. This lesson ultimately animates and illuminates our lives. We become witnesses to the thrilling emergency of the present — a series of exquisite and burning moments,…

  

• Moving Forward – With All My Strength

  4–5 minutes

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  January 6, 2019

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  Family, Friendship, Healing, Ideas, Migration, Personal History, Soul Food, Wanderings

  As I write this I am home in Point au Roche and getting ready for a move west to Colorado. The stay in this house has broken the record for the longest time living in any one home… almost fifteen years. The longest I lived in one place before this was as a child in…