What Can We Do When Life Goes Wrong?
“May you always know you have my hand to hold.” — JJ Heller When my granddaughters were young, they delighted in having their meals...
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- Sep 26
- 4 min
PULSE, Sensing the Sacred, and Connecting to the Cosmic Heartbeat of Compassion
The cultivation of compassion is really a process of recovery – of retrieving an inherent capacity that has become, either in the moment...
- Aug 26
- 6 min
Could The Problem Be a Stifled "Gift"?
“The meaning of life is to find your gift...." Pablo Picasso A couple of days ago, we shared one strength with each other in our...
- Jul 31
- 4 min
"That's Emotions, Mama"
Stop, breathe slow, and make a smart choice." Aldie, mindful paragon Imagine yourself at bedtime. An adult processing the day. Think...
- Jun 19
- 5 min
If You Want To Be Happy...
We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world when we live with these truths. ...
- May 25
- 8 min
Give Us That TRULY Old-Time Religion
"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation." Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, American Congregationalist clergyman of the 1800's,...
- Apr 5
- 3 min
Opening To Our Darkness
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own...
- Mar 29
- 4 min
Who Am I? Who Are You?
If you want to understand me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in...
- Mar 10
- 7 min
Advice Business Leader Would Give to His 22 Year-Old Self
People think compassion is a soft skill. The strongest people I know are the most compassionate. True compassion requires superhuman...
- Mar 7
- 3 min
Sharing Stories Of The Good For The Good
"We are each other’s harvest. we are each other's business. we are each other's magnitude and bond." —Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000), First...
- Jan 16
- 4 min
Courage
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of...
- Jan 11
- 4 min
How To Hold A Cockroach And A Spider... And Everything
"Be curious, not judgmental." (perhaps falsely attributed to Walt Whitman, poet; endorsed by Ted Lasso, me, and my compassion circle)...
- Dec 7, 2022
- 6 min
Where The Spirit Meets The Bone
“Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign of...
- Dec 5, 2022
- 3 min
Remember This - A Lesson In Compassion
"Overcoming the need to create outsiders is our greatest challenge as human beings." Melinda Gates, The Moment of Lift Yesterday, my...
- Oct 28, 2022
- 4 min
Sawubona, Say What?
"We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging." Dr. Hunter...
- Oct 9, 2022
- 5 min
What Are We Up To?
"There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain. Georges Braque, French artist Night before last John and I...
- Sep 22, 2022
- 3 min
Getting Close To Home
"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you." Lewis B. Smedes, author, ethicist, theologian My husband...
- Sep 13, 2022
- 5 min
Of Myths, Grace, and Hallelujahs
"Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in" Poet,...
- Aug 29, 2022
- 4 min
Fence Or A Welcome Sign?
Compassionate people ask for what they need. They say no when they need to, and when they say yes, they mean it. They're compassionate...
- Aug 21, 2022
- 3 min
Sailboats In The Water
“Mystical poetry stills the mind.” ― Bert McCoy, English teacher and writer Some Eastern religions have used deep attention to...
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