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A sacred space for sharing and adding healing energy into our world. You can also find me at my website OneMindOnline.org.

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I have a private practice as a Spiritual Director, I'm an interfaith minister with Buddhism being my primary practice, and currently work as a nurse at the local hospice and in senior care. I am finishing my studies toward a Ph.D. in Transpersonal Psychology. Previous to this, I spent three years training to become a Buddhist monk. That followed an eleven year career in cognitive neuropsychology and brain electrophysiology. I am fluent in cat and hopeless at making a really good trifle.

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Questions Seeking Answers


Here are some intriguing questions that you might ponder as you continue on your journey today...

*What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

*What would you want if you knew you didn't have to be unhappy about not getting it?

*Imagine you are at your own funeral. What do people say about you - not from the pulpit but in whispered voices at the back of the room? What would you like them to say?

*What would you do with your money if you had all you could ever need?

*How would you live your life if you knew you were going to die feeling perfectly healthy in five years?

*What would you feel you've missed if you found out that you had 24 hours to live?

*Imagine you are on your deathbed and you have had a wonderful life. What are the four or five things you are most glad that you did?

(questions courtesy of geniuscatalyst.com)

Friday, December 15, 2006

Love and Learn

At 12:31PM this afternoon a beautiful woman lost her life to a long dance with breast cancer. I had the great honor of being able to share the last few days of her life and death with her. She will forever be an angel and inspiration for me. Her name is Wendy Matlock and her courage and gusto for living was only upstaged by her courage and grace in dying.

Wendy was an amazing force for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Please consider a donation to your local breast cancer center to help find a cure.

The lyrics of the following song came to me from her as I left the hospice and was heading home. I offer them to you because I believe they encompass the way she lived and provide an excellent example of how to understand that all of life is grand and glorious in it's living.

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I recommend getting your heart trampled on to anyone
I recommend walking around naked in your living room
Swallow it down (what a jagged little pill)
It feels so good (swimming in your stomach)
Wait until the dust settles(chorus)

You live you learn
You love you learn
You cry you learn
You lose you learn
You bleed you learn
You scream you learn

I recommend biting off more than you can chew to anyone
I certainly do
I recommend sticking your foot in your mouth at any time
Feel free
Throw it down (the caution blocks you from the wind)
Hold it up (to the rays)
You wait and see when the smoke clears
Wear it out (the way a three-year-old would do)
Melt it down (you're gonna have to eventually anyway)
The fire trucks are coming up around the bend

You live you learn
You love you learn
You cry you learn
You lose you learn
You bleed you learn
You scream you learn

You grieve you learn
You choke you learn
You laugh you learn
You choose you learn
You pray you learn
You ask you learn
You live you learn

(lyrics from "You Learn" by Alanis Morrisette)

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Christmas Wonders


Love Christmas? Hate Christmas? Not sure exactly what to think about the whole thing?? Well, you wouldn't be the first or be alone. The following is the summary of a television Christmas special which attempted to do something "a little different" to honor this holiday:

A Muppet Christmas with Zbigniew Brzezinski (1978)
A year before their rather more successful Christmas pairing with John Denver, the Muppets joined Carter Administration National Security Advisor Brezezinski for an evening of fun, song, and anticommunist rhetoric. While those who remember the show recall the pairing of Brzezinki and Miss Piggy for a duet of "Winter Wonderland" as winsomely enchanting, the scenes where the NSA head explains the true meaning of Christmas to an assemblage of Muppets dressed as Afghan mujahideen was incongruous and disturbing even then. Washington rumor, unsupported by any Carter administration member, suggests that President Carter had this Christmas special on a repeating loop while he drafted his infamous "Malaise" speech.

Nine more howlers like this, including a particularly awful Star Trek episode and a stab at a swinging swinger Santa, can be found at: "The Ten Least Successful Holiday Specials of All Time."