Tag: spirituality
member name: Linda Douglas
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July 23, 2006 08:48 AM EDT --
Ode to Morning
Unrushed Sunday mornings,
Moving slowly . . .
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May 03, 2006 01:46 PM EDT --
I woke this morning to the sound of the rain on the windows and the cars splashing on the wet highway near my apartment. The night had been a rough one. I had tossed and turned and fretted . . .
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June 04, 2006 01:05 PM EDT --
I don't usually do this type of thing, but this reading touched me today as I sat down to do my morning chanting/meditation. I just wanted to share.
"Death will come to each of . . .
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September 06, 2006 03:07 PM EDT --
I gather my treasures around me,
paper, brush, ink and stone.
Chi rising from each gift,
I swirl ink to stone,
touch brush to ink,
move ink on paper,
watch four gentlemen unfold.
Graceful . . .
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January 25, 2007 07:39 AM EST --
Yesterday morning was typically cold and windy for a January day in New England. The light layer of snow was crunchy and slick. The cars were camoflaged in sand and salt. Most faces . . .
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July 30, 2006 12:18 PM EDT --
I was up and at 'em early this morning to drive up to Pitcher Mountain in Stoddard, NH to pick wild blueberries. The idea of a short hike near mountain pastures and wide vistas appealed to me. . . .
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September 02, 2006 06:39 PM EDT --
In 1943, Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, a controversial educator who, through his study of American philosophy was seeking to reform the Japanese educational system, defied the Japanese government by refusing . . .
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September 07, 2006 08:43 PM EDT --
An old friend was coming to visit tonight. I kept looking out the window to see if she was here, but she was making her way slowly. A light in the distant sky beckoned me to crawl out the window . . .
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June 17, 2006 07:52 AM EDT --
I had to gather my thoughts in this morning.
They had run rampant during the night.
Like catnip and mint they had
taken on lives of their own.
Weeds of doubt and old resentments . . .
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September 06, 2006 09:14 AM EDT --
I was sitting at my desk this morning sending emails and making phone calls to the office to let them know I need to take a day off to rest my weary bones when I opened my phone/address/note/journal/shopping . . .
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January 03, 2007 12:50 PM EST --
Or - Be Careful What You Ask For:
On November 22 I was riding in my son’s truck and thinking back on the past few days. We had just returned from northern Wisconsin . . .
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August 12, 2006 07:39 AM EDT --
I am a firm believer in ritual. Not established ritual of religions (which has its place) but in personal rituals used to nurture body, spirit and mind. Rituals provide structure, cleanse and . . .
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September 30, 2007 03:03 PM EDT --
I haven't written much since my mother died last November. I just haven't felt the urge. Grief shows up in funny ways. However, since my mother died fairly young at the . . .
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October 14, 2006 07:53 AM EDT --
Heading south on a brisk, bright October day
I look up and see a flock of geese flying north,
their bodies black against the clear blue sky.
It seems to be an omen. I want to stop, scream . . .
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July 29, 2006 02:51 PM EDT --
Last weekend I read a book that left me thinking about happiness and how we define it, search for it, and feel when we think we don't have it. Journal of a Solitude was written by May Sarton . . .
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October 29, 2006 09:33 PM EST --
Change of Seasons
Leaves dance to earth
while the wind plays
a tune through the trees.
White caps rise and fall
on Dublin Pond while
clouds scatter over head.
I smile as snow flakes
melt . . .
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September 21, 2006 04:35 PM EDT --
I have always been a person who loves to read. I don't remember not knowing how to read. Since I first joined the public library on the corner of Vaughn and Second Street in Ashland, . . .
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March 05, 2006 10:44 AM EST --
Republish to Pathways to Spiritual Living Group
I have been a Buddhist for many years but I did not know it. I have always believed in the interdependence of all things, the presence of a Mystic . . .
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May 03, 2006 04:59 PM EDT --
Rising up like a dragon from its cave
I fly over mountains,
hands moving like wings across my chest,
gathering clouds in my palms to release to the wind.
Softly landing on ground the dragon is freed. . . .
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February 17, 2006 10:47 PM EST --
The air was absolutely intoxicating. I had climbed for most of the morning and had finally come to the top of the tree line. I looked down in to the valley at the patchwork of fall colors. . . .
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