One of my earliest memories is exploring our farm in South Dakota. We lived 50 miles from the Black Hills and 25 miles from Bear Butte which jutted up from the flat prairie. The history of the area was filled with stories of Indians and Wild Bill Hickok and Annie Oakley. We had a horse […]
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Image: IN LOVE 24×24/acrylic on board Life has carried me to this moment in time. For an illusion, she certainly bears her weight. I am 71 years on the planet. My face has, in it, the obvious benefits of everything I have experienced this far. All my sorrows, all my joys – a deep well
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Image: A Different Perspective 36×24/acrylic on wood Dearest, I can easily see your sincerity. Your kindness is genuine. Every trace of warmth and love we give away – goes into our own account. You have seen this working in you. If you make Love your highest purpose, it will pour itself into your every day.
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I am increasingly aware that when we love someone, it becomes a point of bonding to them. We have volunteered to be willing contributors to their well-being. We are truly one with them. We add to the well-being of the planet and its people. The benefits flow to us as well. The more room we
Love. Trust. Eventually it requires you to take your clothes off and jump over the cliff into unknown territory, believing Love will catch you. You let go of being right or wrong. You learn to let go of ego’s bullying and all your fears and negative judgements. To just get on with it. Loving in
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Image: Waiting For the Smile – 26×30/acrylic on board Love is the journey and the destination. We learn awkwardly what it means to love…from our challenges and our mistakes. Every experience. Each failure. Every person. All our tears and joys dance together, annointing us with the fire and the resolve to surrender. There is no
Valentine’s Day is on the horizon. Chocolates, candy hearts, poems being written and declarations of love to be made. While this is fun, today…I’m thinking about a deeper Love. Years ago, my older sister – working as a psych nurse in a hospital – told me what the staff looked for in a newly
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I’m dreaming of a world where humans actually prioritize how they behave towards others. A place where we keep our word, or try to anyway. A place where Love not ego is ruler. Where we have the ability to know when we are wrong and are free enough to admit it. It is the very
It’s windy today on The Highlands. This furtive kindness…the sun…the quiet…the joy. This wind – only wind – is cleaning out the cobwebs. Our many small and large errors are being swept from our souls. I turn to the God of origins. The one who has no name to explain Himself. She is today’s sunlight.
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True, I love how you are so opposite me. I love how judgement refuses to stick between us. I love how we accept each other. With you, I am engaged in being because you are so unfamiliar. (I don’t want to miss any part of you) My default position in times of difficulty is
