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Our Deepest Fear ~ Marianne Williamson
Our Deepest Fear
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be … Continue reading
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My First Blog Posting
This is my first blog posting (at least it was my first one until my organizational skills misplaced it in the order of posts ~ oh well, its all learning!). I guess that there has to be a first one … Continue reading
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The Pro Action Café
Thank you to Ria Baeck and Rainer von Leoprechting, friends from Brussels, for creating Pro Action Cafés. This is a methodology that combines rounds of small table conversation of World Café with the Open Space encouragement of anyone with … Continue reading
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We Were Made for Times Like This ~ Dr. Clarissa Pinkola-Estés
Do Not Lose Heart, We Were Made for These Times
“Mis estimados,
Do not lose heart. We were made for these times.
I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned about the state of affairs … Continue reading
Give Birth to Your Images ~ Rilke
You must give birth
to your images
they are the future within you
wanting to be born.
Fear not the strangeness that you feel
The future has to enter us
long before it happens.
~ Rainer Marie Rilke
Simplicity ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
“I wouldn’t give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity; I would give everything for the simplicity on the far side of complexity.”
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Companioning ~ Wolfelt
In the spirit of Iteneris, this poem is also a traveler. I first obtained it from Teresa Smith-Dixon, a local hospice manager who shared it during the passing of a dear community member and wife of my friend and mentor, … Continue reading