Enjoy this article which first appeared in The Transylvania Times, Brevard, North Carolina …In each moment you exist in an exquisite perfection of your own making, and your own collaboration with one another… The Way of Mastery How connected are you with yourself, honoring your understandings, values, and ways? How connected are you … [Read more...]
Joy 201: Receiving Nutrients, Offering Shade
If you deeply love Divinity while not being grounded in your body, will you stumble through dialog when folks lack a spiritual bent? Will you ignore and abuse your body, which feels unattached to your being? Will you ignore an intuitive warning as you chalk it up to fear in your mind? Will you long to leave the earth, so you can commune forever … [Read more...]
Living Into New Life in a New Place
My husband and I bought land in the mountains of western North Carolina when our sons were nine and 12, with the idea that we’d move from Ohio when they’d grown. And we did. But before we left northeast Ohio, in the years of high school graduations and traveling to the mountains to choose faucets and tile, I fill pages in my morning journal. I’m … [Read more...]

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