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Once you see… (A Lyric)

If you shut down, and just be quiet, You can hear the sounds of your own stupidity, You won’t forget, you won’t forgive, You just wallow in what used to be.   I could sit […]

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Hereafter – A Lyric

It seems like yesterday We were young and holding on, Laughing in the fields – sneaking by the boss, Flirting with tomorrow as if it were all but guaranteed.   I close my eyes, remember […]

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Distant Memory – A Lyric

Close your eyes…it’s just me Just some distant memory Didn’t mean to wake you to set you free Yes, it’s just me.   I tried to hold out,  Tried to stand tall Tried to be […]

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A Meditation from Tonight’s Class

This is a synopsis of my reaction to a guided meditation tonight during a Foundations class. Present Me is standing on one side of a bridge, shrouded in the fog of ideas and looking at […]

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Ode to the Lover

I walked silently through the mist into your arms.  You loved me, you cherished me, you gave me sight and showed me unending gratitude.  You held me up, you showed me a way, and as […]

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What ever happened to REAL communication?

We text.  We email.  And then we wonder why we communicate so poorly.  Of course  I am broadly generalizing here, but overall it seems like an affliction dominating our society’s poor track record on relationships. […]

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Share, Don’t Prevent, Another’s Suffering

Let me clarify at the beginning that by “suffering” in this post I mean EMOTIONAL suffering, not physical suffering.  It’s an important distinction here, since I believe the roots of emotional suffering are different than […]

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