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The Debt Ceiling Crisis – A Lesson In Spirituality

While others are digging in to the ideological positions I have been simply watching.  While some are calling each other names and suggesting that the “sky is falling” I have been stuck in observation mode […]

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For My Sister on My Birthday

I remember the silliness in her voice, The wonderful innocence in her eyes, The sweet sound of poetry in her youth, The pleasant motion in her clumsiness. I still can see her beautiful imperfections, Those […]

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I Died Yesterday…

…so, I decided to write my own eulogy today. I was sort of thinking (this is what I call it when I am not formally meditating but kind of just being) when the topic of […]

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Transcending Differences Through Unconditional Love

The path we walk is divided by a fork, and we choose which path to take. One one side is the path of ideas.  On this path, we choose to be known and to know […]

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Is Feeding Kids Fast “Food” Child Abuse?

One must wonder what action would be taken if a parent gave their child a glass of water spiked with sodium phosphates, sodium aluminum phosphate, and tertiary butylhydroquinone. Who would intervene? By the looks at the drive through line at a local fast food restaurant, not many.

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Lover’s Harmony

You are a whisper my dear, Softly spoken in this moment’s ear, A subtle song sung in perfect harmony.   Surrender my Angel now, And forgive this sinner somehow, And enjoy the sound of a […]

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Broken – A Conversation Between the Saint and the Sinner

The mind does not perceive what it does not know.  What it does not know appears “broken” to it, it disagrees with the notion that others can experience things differently, see things differently or know […]

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