Indebted. Obligated. Owing. Compelled, bound, required, forced. Beholden. An action done, a bond made, often from the will to help, the willingness to extend a hand, but from a position of power, of ownership, of control, of sovereignty. Gratitude. Grateful. […]
Continue reading »Causing Change
When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change! ~ Wayne Dyer. Change Your Thoughts – Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao Change one person in the group. Well, change yourself, for even […]
Continue reading »Once Upon an Angry Liver
Anger resides in the liver, I’m told. Spewing bile, a walking reservoir of venom, jealousy, enmity. Eat, they say, to fix it. Garlic, grapefruit, beets, lemons, greens… Maybe it helps, but other eating helps – abstinence. With a side of […]
Continue reading »The Guilt Dump Dream
When amends have been made, lessons learned, responsibility nurtured, maturation triggered…still, guilt lingers. For years. Decades, lifetimes, and beyond… guilt converges, amasses, amalgamates, melds like plastic peanuts in a land dump, perpetual, imperishable, perdurable. Useless. Toxic. Malignant. Pernicious. Toxic waste […]
Continue reading »Muddy Waters
But the muddiest water clears as it is stilled. and out of that stillness life arises. ~ Lao-tzu In the harshest drought a hard-pounding downpour fills lakes, washes clean the world, restores hope and heart, but… persistent showers, pooling, puddling, lingering, […]
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