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Month: October 2011

Very Encouraging Experience

October 31, 2011July 8, 2017 betsy9Uncategorized

Dad left this message on my voicemail this morning.  “Hi Bets! Just had a bracing walk outside, very bracing, very encouraging experience, breathing the air. Okay, call when you can. I love you. I love being alive!” followed by peals […]

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Empty And Quiet

October 30, 2011July 8, 2017 betsy9Uncategorized

A Sunday Thought… Keep your mind as empty and quiet as possible, free of worry and irritation. Rather than struggling or trying to force answers, see if you can relax instead, as situations come up. Instead of being reactive, be […]

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First Snow

October 29, 2011July 8, 2017 betsy9Uncategorized
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Tucked Between Us

October 28, 2011July 8, 2017 betsy9Uncategorized

The earth has circled the sun twelve times since I went into labor with Claire. She didn’t arrive on October 28th. She waited until the wee hours of the 29th, 1:10 am, to be exact.  I called Jesse straight away, […]

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In All Things

October 27, 2011July 8, 2017 betsy9Uncategorized

There is  in all things a hidden wholeness. -Thomas Merton

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Offer No Resistance

October 25, 2011July 8, 2017 betsy9Uncategorized

To offer no resistance to life  is to be in a state of grace,  ease, and lightness. -Echart Tolle There’s much I could write about resistance. I’ve twisted myself into tight, hard knots perfecting my resistance practice. This is an extremely painful way […]

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At Your Own Pace

October 24, 2011July 8, 2017 betsy9Uncategorized

Two years ago, Jesse couldn’t run a mile. Yesterday she ran 13.1 miles; her first, (and according to her) probably her last half marathon. She did great! “I ran every step of the way, Mom,” she said. I, on the other […]

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It’s OK

October 21, 2011July 8, 2017 betsy9Uncategorized

It’s late on this Friday and I don’t know what to write.  I don’t know what to write.  I don’t know what to write.  I think,  share the short story that bubbled out the other day, the one about a […]

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Hand Of Friendship

October 20, 2011July 8, 2017 betsy9Uncategorized

A Thursday thought… The greatest changes come when you stop trying to change yourself and instead extend the hand of friendship to yourself, exactly as you are right now.  -Susan Piver

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In the End

October 19, 2011July 8, 2017 betsy9Uncategorized

Driving home from visiting Dad the other day, Claire and I got to talking about what it means to have lived a good life. Actually, I was saying how I felt like there were many things I still wanted to […]

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