Love is Practicing the Habit of Connecting

January 5, 2011

Naming a year is the easy part. This is my year of connecting. The year that the “one”, becomes one of the “one anothers“. And if I am to be about Connecting I have to follow through, and go about doing it. A daily practice A willful direction It doesn’t matter that it’s scary. It […]

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Love has a fairy tale – You’re never too old for a fairy tale

January 4, 2011

Once upon a time, there was a world not too unlike our own. There were oceans and mountains and deserts and plains. There was greed and lust. There was peace and faith. There was war. One side right. One side wrong. And there were many in the middle, in the gray, not soldiers of either […]

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Love and stones and schemes and forgiveness (part 2)

January 3, 2011

If you missed it, Part one is here. It really must be read first. And well after the last stone was dropped, there she was. Hidden in the only safe place within, locked away, far away no light, no sound I am not here, I am not here, go away I will not move, I […]

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Love and stones and schemes and forgiveness (part 1)

December 31, 2010

She was caught. She was dragged, little doubt, very violently. She must have resisted, pleaded innocence, begged for mercy… but there would be none. She would have been bruised, and bleeding, and her body barely covered,  by the time they got to the temple area. I can see them throwing  her down like so much […]

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Love is affected by the pain of others – and helps

December 30, 2010

She is hurting – this child of God. She’s in a circle of pain. The brain attacks her heart and pummels it until it can’t beat or terrifies it so that it can’t stop beating. It takes a thought, any thought, and races with it so fast that nobody could keep up. And it twists […]

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Love drop the masks

December 29, 2010

I have always had the social skills, but like a pre-schooler handed a canvas, a palette of colors, an assortment of brushes, and different mediums to choose, I never knew how to put them together and make the art. This year I am painting with love – and connecting. This connecting thing is difficult. I […]

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Love reads minds, not by magic, but by attentiveness.

December 28, 2010

I remember the room Well lit, flowers all over, People I knew, people I didn’t. I made it a point to greet everyone. My mom taught me to make the rounds when you organize a gathering. I remember, as a kid, hearing her called “hostess with the mostest”. So I did what my mom taught […]

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