Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.~ Karl A. Menninger The nature…
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I’ve been reading a terrific bookabout circumstance, homelessnessstrength, endurance andin the end, theone foot in front of the other kind ofwalkingalso, the healing nature ofnatureand of love as I read, I have felt myself to a muchmuchlesser degree, struggling alongthrough…
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It feels a great luxury to fully breathe indeeplyto step outside, the morning still darklight provided from the damp pilingof snowreflecting I guess, the colourof theskycurrent precipitation spits like rainbut the air feels fresh,so I breathe it in, as best…
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small bits of writing from the past few days Ways in whichIcould love youbetter… ~~~~~~ this morning I am up much before the sunas my wandering brain has wellbegun thinking of thingsto be done (tis the season and all that)it…
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Currently what I am reading is A Taste of Power by Elaine Brown one woman’s story of resistance and resilience of, for the most part, young disenfranchised inspired people coming up in the Black Panther organization while also last night revisiting the remarkable…
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As I am about to begin, I almost always start with – this morning… where actually, I realize it is already afternoon morning having slipped away, while I was reading having once again sunken quiet deliciously into a fantastic new book thinking it best that I take…
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This morning finds me somewhat frustrated by my husband’s,closed off quiet-ish habit of internalizing worry(as men do) which leaves one feeling a little outside looking in, unable to hear the presentconversationand offer softening reason and supporta very Venus and Mars…
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It is interesting reading about children of alcoholics (being one myself)and its effect on one’s development andcharacteron one’s whole life’s telling and also strangely being at this age of life (thoughtful, introspective, no longer so very young)and witnessing first hand…
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because I am a reader, a thinker, a listener and I hope, a learner because I am a writer (in my own small way and said in my inside voice) because I am a nurturer, a feeler and a person…
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