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Exploring Rabbit Holes
If you’re as curious about your human existence as I am, I invite you to join me as I venture down another rabbit hole of self-exploration about the polarities we experience while on planet Earth. I begin entering these rabbit holes with practices I picked up long...
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What Doesn’t Kill You During Pandemic
Most would call 2020 a disastrous year, with no real end in sight even now that we’re in 2021. I’m counting my blessings and challenges, and feeling so grateful. I don’t mean to diminish the bona fide pain and suffering that is occurring around us. I too have had my...
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Relationship Education and Why it Matters: A New Opportunity
The “three R’s”, reading, writing, and ‘rithmatic cover a lot, but not a key component of successful lives, families, and communities: healthy relationships. I used to think that good relationships were all about compatibility and chemistry. But healthy and resilient...
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Communication in a Committed Relationship
Successful relationships require commitment and good communication. This advice often seems to be misconstrued as being limited to articulating views and beliefs clearly to the other. Good communication should be reciprocal, aimed at mutual understanding. Too often...
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Journey to Be in Relationship
Like most girls, I spent my childhood imagining that I’d meet a wonderful man and live happily ever after. The search was the hard part, according to cultural lore. One day, about 6 years into my marriage, and much to my surprise, I found myself crying as I walked...
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The Art Of Acceptance
Standing before many mirrors over the past thirty years, I’ve seen patterns of thought, feeling, and behavior in myself that produced outcomes I’d prefer never experiencing again. At one time, I wore these patterns like a well-worn pair of jeans that defined me. On...
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Earth Mother is Feeling Ill Today
I sit on my screened-in porch in the company of the trees and birds, especially enjoying the sound and sight of a female cardinal in the tree. I savor the contrast of her orange and browns and marvel in her subtle beauty. She visits often and this time, chirps to me...
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Re-imagining Our Sacred Relationships
Mindy Zlotnick, Virginia Community Rights Network Susanna Calvert, Foundation for Family and Community Healing Rugged individualism has served America well in some respects. It’s created many of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs and decades of economic...
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Walking for Life: Voting with our Feet
In the USA we have just come through a long election cycle, which appears to have no end in sight. No matter where a person falls on any ideological or political scale, it is paramount for everyone to vote. Voting is one way to listen to each other, even if what we...
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