23. Je suis In the early seventies, I attended the Dalcroze School of Music in New York City for one or two years. This was a music method developed by Emile Jaques-Dalcroze that connects music, movement, mind, and body. One of the most powerful exercises we did was...
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July 11, 2012 Ann
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22. Absolutes often wrong When my four children were young (four within six years), they often came to me with always, and everyone, and never. You always let him do that and not me. Everyone has that toy except me. I never get to go. I would carefully...
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July 10, 2012 Ann
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21. Energy Power of music When I met my second cousin Paula after a number of years of being out of contact with her, one of the stories she told me was of the house she grew up in as one of eight children. She said that the...
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July 9, 2012 Ann
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20. Ask for What You Want Today In one of my early sessions of participating in group therapy, I started to write songs once I got home. One of my early songs was Ask For What You Want Today. It seems like something obvious but I discovered that...
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July 8, 2012 Ann
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19. New Way to Start the Day I was visiting my daughter with her five young children. I had slept on the livingroom couch and two children were already doing school work at the diningroom table when I woke up. The two-year-old was up and one of the...
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July 7, 2012 Ann
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18. Walter Wink’s Chant Years ago I took a one-week course at Union Theological School with Walter Wink and June Keener-Wink. At one point in the course Walter asked us to sit on the floor and get as comfortable as we could. He taught us a chant and...
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July 6, 2012 Ann
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17. The Wind is blowing Summer camp and Debbie was the counselor for the four-year-olds. There was a line for the bathroom and suddenly the little four-year-old boy who would be next started to cry loudly. Debbie came over quickly and said, “Tony whatever is the matter?” Tony...
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July 5, 2012 Ann
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16. Let the negative stories go Some of these learnings are not from years and years ago—they are things I’m working on in present time. I was at a lunch just a month or so ago and was aware that I was telling a negative story about someone—and...
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July 4, 2012 Ann
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15. It’s good to be where you know where you are In 1972 our family took a cross-country camping trip. Starting from Pomona, NY, we went nine thousand miles as far west as Glacier Park and Yellowstone Park, camped at an Indian Reservation in the Dakotas, and finally...
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July 3, 2012 Ann
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14. Pull over and say a prayer I learned this from one of my daughters, whose husband was a firefighter until his early retirement. She has five young children (and three older ones) and when they hear a siren, they pull over and say a prayer—for the persons...
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July 2, 2012 Ann
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