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Boundary or No Boundary
120. Boundary or No Boundary In the late 70’s I read a book by Ken Wilber titled No Boundary. It had ideas in it which fit at the time into a number of my own intuitive feelings, gut feelings, sometimes very strange feelings. Wondering…
Stacks, Fog, Breath, New Start
119. Stacks, Fog, Breath, New Start Each morning I “walk” a lap labyrinth, then color a mandala (just a plain circle into which I put whatever I want), then write a page of reflection. Let me describe it for you. At the bottom of…
Take Tarts
118. Take Tarts I had a woman in one of my writing classes a number of years ago, who had a favorite saying. She said it was a West Virginia-ism. It was: Take tarts when tarts is passin’. Lately I’ve been thinking about that…
Same / Different Person
117. Same / Different Person I was thinking the other day about how through my life I have changed and shifted, how I started and how I am today, and wondering how many other shifts I will make before I die. I think that…
Mother May I
116. Mother May I Did you ever ask permission. I did—over and over again—first from my mother, then my teachers, then…it just went on and on. But there came a day when I dawned on me that I needed to stop. I need to…
Kum Ba Yah
115. Kum Ba Yah Another children’s choir story centered around “Kum Ba Yah.” It didn’t take us long to learn it, because many of them already knew it. And so after they had it well in hand, we added the American Sign Language signs…
Lonesome Valley
114. Lonesome Valley I love some moments of worship. When I was directing the children’s choir at New City United Methodist Church, the children learned “Lonesome Valley.” After they were pretty secure with it, I said that for the last verse I wanted them…
“Grace and Grit”
113. Grace and Grit I write this within an hour of finishing reading the book Grace and Grit—Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber by Ken Wilber. I found this book to be profound and what I’ve learned from…
That Kind of Time
112. That Kind of Time I love Anne Lamott’s books and I recently was reminded of a story in one of Traveling Mercies. She wrote about going shopping with her friend Pammy who was in a wheelchair and struggling with cancer. Anne was looking…
Chaos and Void
111. Chaos and Void Chaos and void are resources to be used. In my first experience in a clowning workshop, this was one of my learnings—a new concept for me at that time. There was a social-action clown from the midwest named Tom Woodward….
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Daybook of Personal Faith
Mama and Me
