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Lazy Days

6/18/2017

I say to myself
Lazy days how I love you
You’re not lazy!
I have been told this

and I wonder why this would be a bad thing to embrace

Lazy days
Balancing doing with not
Nothing to do but this

Glorifying in the vastness of no-thing
And in that I get things done

But not a lot
Not a lot
You’re not lazy

Just having a lazy day
Blessing to you
While I sit in receipt of the blessings that I send out to you

Lazy Girl, enjoy this day.
That's it, from me

From one of these lazy lazy days

Music
Wishi Ta
Brook Medicine Eagle

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Maura's Post: The worst thing to fear is FEAR itself

6/8/2017

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I have my snorkel gear on but I don’t want to go in the water. What if there are sharks? I can’t get this out of my mind, but I am not going to let it ruin my vacation.

I go in the water, splash! I look deep into the water. What is that big thing?? Is it a shark? Oh, it is just a fish. What is that thing that all the fish are swimming away from?? Is it a shark? No just all the plankton is gone so they are going to find more. I really have to get sharks out of my mind. I wish…please God please make me stop thinking about sharks?

God says, I can’t help you Maura. You have to do it yourself, but I am definitely cheering you on. So I asked my Dad, “Are there any sharks?” My Dad said, “No, not here.”

I say to myself, MAURA THERE ARE NO SHARKS, SO GO AND HAVE FUN!

And I did.

By Maura (my 8 year old granddaughter)

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Springlike here in HH

2/26/2017

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"When I argue with reality, I lose, but only 100% of the time." Byron Katie

"If I had a prayer, it would be this: God, spare me from the desire for love, approval or appreciation. Amen". Bryon Katie

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Guatemala City Spring 2016

6/14/2016

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Slow Down (Spring 2015)

5/20/2016

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It is Spring 2015 and work has been very stressful lately and it has been hard to catch a break. I am in South Florida and should be having a breezy sunny time but the clouds are thick and the air heavy and my body/mind is craving a reprieve. I ran this morning and it was hard running on the soft sand but I plugged along and told myself that I wasn’t going to quit. I ran for 28 minutes maybe two miles. I ended coughing and out of breath (from exertion and my chest cold) but I didn’t quit.

Yesterday I went to Dee’s class. She used to teach Anusara and has a dancer's body, that of athleticism and yoga all mingled into one. She is disciplined, with an aristocratic nose and dark eyes. She must also be a lululemon ambassador, her top fits her perfectly small upper body without bunching in spots as mine does. She started out by releasing her seat. Pulling the flesh out from her sitting bones with consciousness, awareness and precision as she tells us to do the same. I have already rocked side to side on my butt to do this.

(As I was driving to class I was thinking that Dee is a type B person and wished I could be more like this. She seems to be easy going with her young children. When I see her she is “in the moment” laughing unhurriedly. Busied by the mundane and ordinary mom stuff.) Today she measures her thoughts before she speaks in the same way that she releases her sitting bones. When she starts class she speaks and says “my parents…her voice slightly shaky from laughter and nerves a place where it usually hovers when she speaks. “My parents are moving to AVL from Raleigh. This is a good thing, this is good but…they have lived in Raleigh for 50 years so it is a great undertaking to clean out their house.”

She pauses “I have been going back and forth helping them she emphasizes, “and the other day I was feeling overwhelmed by the magnitude of it.” “I was driving (back?) with my 5 year old and I thought, well let’s make this fun.” She laughs shakily in remembrance “and so, I was cranking the radio listening to pop music (pause) and we were dancing in our seat she imitates this (pause) “and then” she twirls her finger in the air and makes the sound of a police car. (Pause) haha laughs and sucks in her breath…”I got stopped. When the policeman asked me if there was a reason I was speeding, I thought about it and said, No officer there really isn’t a reason. So I got a ticket speeding in a construction zone. My husband wasn’t happy at all” (and she mumbles ‘I will be hearing about it for the next 6 years’) (her husband is a family practices physician—safety first, I think). “But he said to me, (pause) ‘If anything comes out of this (pause) it is to tell us we need to SLOW DOWN.’ I sit there impressed that she didn’t try to get out of her ticket, but embraced the lesson and that she too needs to slow down.

This lesson has become universal in the room. We need to SLOW DOWN—that I need to slow down…“because clearly (she says this later metaphorically) I don’t need to be pushing my foot down to the floor.” She also says something else that sticks with me. She says that when we are overwhelmed we don’t need to give up or collapse but keep going. Yes, this is even more important for me to hear. I don’t need to give up or collapse but to just keep going…

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