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Just like that
THE REAL BLESSING I’m writing this on a plane on Christmas day. I was lucky enough to sit by a window and see the sea of sunset for hours and hours, travelling from Frankfurt to San Fran. I’ll probably post this later: Sitting beside me in the plane are two books: The Embodied Mind: Cognitive…
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One tool in a survival toolkit
This is found in Mary Catherine Bateson’s 1990 book, Composing a Life (p. 231): “… the central survival skill is surely the capacity to pay attention and respond to changing circumstances, to learn and adapt, to fit into new environments beyond the safety of temple precincts.” Is living “beyond the safety of temple precincts” a…
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The Word is Love
We cannot begin to know the impact of how what we think, what we believe and what we do affects us and others—and our earth. This continuum we conceptualize as time… Is it a continuum? What does that mean? And so this chapter begins. Not as a new chapter. Not as answers. Not a result…