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For Cara, Vanessa, and Jeanie
A Celebration of Life If I Die–Pablo Neruda IfI die, survive me with such sheer force that you awaken the furies of the pallid and the cold, from south to south lift your indelible eyes, from sun to sun dream through your singing mouth, I don’t want your laughter or your steps to waver, I…
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HAPPY HANUKKAH
Afraid of the Dust “Afraid of the dust, closely peering at fragments, we go cautiously among little things, finer and finer, till no one is able to find us and we can follow where the labyrinth wants us to go. Oh, do you remember when the days were fastened to wheels of a wagon…
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Christmas Woofing Around
Wazzs the night before the mass consumer shopping meltdown, and who let the dogs out? woof woof, HOLLY JOLLY!!!!
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Don’t Eat the Frankin Fish
OPENNESS By Adyashanti “Openness has no particular location. It seems to be everywhere. It has room for anything. There can be a thought or no thought. There can be a feeling or no feeling. There can be sounds. There can be silence. Nothing disturbs openness. Nothing disturbs your true nature. We only get disturbed when……
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For Jean
A hundred sorrows under a single snail: wind and waves, poles of the line of vision, birds sunk in the mist, and the mountains with them. All the color of the south, still cold next to the skin. Getting past this place, this autum of the heart, one starts to know what hard traveling means.…
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The 4 Thoughts That Turn the Mind Toward Spiritual Practice
Reminders on my birthday from Pema Chodron 1. Maintain an awareness of the preciousness of human life. This cultivates gratitude. 2. Be aware of the reality that life ends. This cultivates insight into impermanence. 3. That whatever you do has consequences. Karma 4. That self-importance and getting caught up thinking about how good or bad…
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