Meditation on: A Hopi Elder Speaks

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

“You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour, now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour.  And there are things to be considered . . .

Where are you living?
What are you doing?
 What are your relationships?
Are you in right relation?
Where is your water?
Know your garden.
It [...]

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The Culture of Pretend: How Psychotherapy Keeps Our Communities Sick

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Early in my experience as a psychotherapy client I received the therapeutic counsel that “Secrets keep you sick.” As scared as I felt when I identified and then disclosed secrets to my therapist, I saw the healing power that came as as a result.  I worked hard in therapy.  I realized how much material I [...]

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the nest, grist, est and i choose the love boat

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

the nest
As Tim and I sat in the “nest” drinking coffee recently, as we chewed on the morning grist, he suggested it was time that I write another blog. The nest, by the way, is our overstuffed, well-used, second-hand couch, where we face one another most mornings and evenings, legs outstretched. It is our joint [...]

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Acknowledgment and Appreciation Revisited

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Morning Journal Entry: Tuesday, July 20, 2009
So what’s got me going this morning is likley linked to a dream about getting the acknowledgment, respect, appreciation and connection I want from people that in the past I did not get it from, people who pulled back in the face of What A Way To Go, who [...]

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Get Together

Monday, August 17th, 2009

If you hear the song I sing,
You must understand
You hold the key to love and fear
All in your trembling hand

There was some great stuff going on in the seventies and eighties.  I participated in some of it: marathon encounter [...]

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