Category Archives: Patience
What I Learned From Being a Listening Post
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. —Anonymous The greatest … Continue reading
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Can We Really Learn to Love the Weeds?
Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen. —Barbara Sher I realize that humor isn’t for everyone. It’s only … Continue reading
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Dolphins, Humility and Humor
Every survival kit should include a sense of humor. —Anonymous Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. —Edward de Bono I came across a delightful story about a dolphin this past week. Two … Continue reading
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Are You Enjoying the Process?
There are few things more wonderful than knowing where you want to go and being on the path to getting there. –Earnie Larsen As I said in 2007–A Year of Adventure, I want to continue becoming more stress-hardy. I had … Continue reading
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Are You Giving Yourself Room to Grow?
They are able to tolerate ambiguity, uncertainty, and imperfection. They have a long-range perspective, so they give themselves and others room to grow. They can afford to be resilient, flexible, and creative because they are centered in their values. —#4, … Continue reading
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Honoring Resistance
Colleen Wainright, the communicatrix, is presently participating in a 30-day hypnotherapy experiment and describing it on her blog. Her therapist, Greg Beckett, is apparently using psychosynthesis to find her subpersonalities and help her to get them to work together as … Continue reading
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A Labor of Love
I’ve spent most of the past few days editing videos for the local public access TV station. More specifically, I’ve been turning video clips I’ve taken of Ruth Williamson into sing-a-longs for the TV audience. Ruth is a volunteer who … Continue reading
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Nurturing the Flowers
Azalea blooms by catmadogma I’ve been spending a long time trying to rewrite the home page of this website. I think of it as nurturing flowers…sometimes it takes a lot of TLC before they start blooming. So I’m not only … Continue reading
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Slightly Buried Under
I’ve been feeling a bit overwhelmed the past week or so. I’ve been trying to modify this blog…to make it coordinate better with the rest of my website. And after spending a day or so learning just enough about WordPress … Continue reading
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