Sometimes it just takes guts. Sometimes we can’t think our way to a solution. We can’t whine our way to the answer. We can’t emote our way to healing. Sometimes it just takes guts and putting one foot in front of the other and doing the thing we think we…
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A world of abundance lives outside of my window this morning. I am drawn to the Carolina blue sky. My breath catches as I see the sun’s rays wash over the lush green foliage along the driveway’s edge. It’s hard to imagine that in just a few short weeks the…
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REACHING When I bent down to pick up the pieces of my life, I shoved my hands into the black soot of death and reached through the bitter haze of unspent emotions, to find fragments of me, inert, motionless and suffocating. * When I bent down to pick up the…
View More REACHING – POETRYI’ve come to see that when darkness resides in our soul it’s because we dare not look in the corners and crevices that contain our pain. We fear the darkness when we could choose to shine a light to banish it. A self-protective mechanism no doubt. Still…. In recent years, I’ve…
View More Banish the Darkness“Retreating into yourself to find purpose can be like straddling a dock and a boat that is moving away. We are pulled in opposite directions by the intense desire of the mind for human involvement and the equally intense need of the soul for its own company. In the…
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The unfolding of consciousness sometimes feels like a runaway freight train…and I’m just hanging on for dear life. Ah, but what a ride! My only regret is that I got on board so late in life. On the other hand, my life’s path that led me to this point carries…
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