wednesday’s wonderings

how do you create community?

February 17, 2010
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       Sometimes I feel rich with friends and family and I know that I am lucky to be so well loved. Other days I feel so lonely. Does this happen to you? Nothing really changes in my life. I get out of the same bed and drink something warm out of the same green mug. [...]

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what do you do to celebrate togetherness?

February 10, 2010
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       Valentines Day is a time to remind people we love them. How do you remind the people you love that they are your favorite faces to spy in the crowd?          I know a mother who has lived with her son for the past 16 years. It’s just the two of them. Every [...]

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love and fear walk hand in hand

February 3, 2010
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       I know that the things I love the most are also the things that tend to cause me the most fear. I get worked up about where the peanut butter goes in the fridge because I’ve attached meaning to the placement of that particular item.        Sometimes I fear things because I’ve been told [...]

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are you a spender or a saver?

January 27, 2010
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       What are you thinking about when cleaning out a closet or facing the pile-up that is your desk? Dealing with my stuff is important to me because it’s a collection of my altared spaces. Sorting through it helps me sort out my place in the grand scheme of the great beyond.        I try [...]

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where is your soft?

January 20, 2010
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Puffy clouds, cotton, the fluff on the top of a latte, an old, favorite sweatshirt, long hair newly shampooed, a fuzzy blanket. What do these things have in common? To me they are all soft.        When I ask Wikipedia what is soft I get soft money, I get the soft connective tissue in our [...]

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what creates space in your life?

January 13, 2010
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Where do you find space?   How does space make you feel? Nervous? Excited? Relaxed? Soothed?   There are all different kinds of ether, and there is a soothing space for everyone…where do you find your soothing place? Where your skin can relax and become soft? Is it tucked into the corner with a book [...]

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