tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63860215975387923962024-03-04T22:41:56.854-08:00Rhythm & RespirationWhy 'Rhythm and Respiration?
Because I like the wordplay between the ecological and biomedical meaning of rhythm and respiration and the spiritual understanding of these words ... cycles and patterns, fractals and eras, breath and renewal ....
I'm wanting to use this blog to invite a thoughtful integration of living from the center of these rhythms ... purpose and passion morphing through the journey!
jemmagirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09138365720256111900noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6386021597538792396.post-21316240121837437432023-12-27T09:53:00.000-08:002023-12-27T09:53:27.930-08:00Of Stones and Stars Christmas, 2023<p> </p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://studiousguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Stars.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://studiousguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Stars.jpg" width="640" /></a><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i> </i><b> </b> </span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><i style="color: #0b5394;">Of Stones and Stars </i> </h2><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://img.freepik.com/premium-vector/sisyphus-rolls-heavy-stone-up-mountain-myths-ancient-greece-vector-illustration_658425-31.jpg?w=2000" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="654" data-original-width="800" height="164" src="https://img.freepik.com/premium-vector/sisyphus-rolls-heavy-stone-up-mountain-myths-ancient-greece-vector-illustration_658425-31.jpg?w=2000" width="200" /></a></div><span style="color: #0b5394;">The boulder we inherited from Sisyphus grows by hours, days,
years, but often lies deceptively flat or stair-like and scalable for decades.<o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394;">At times the growing hulk even holds the warmth of sunlight
and we find soft mossy edges to curl against and rest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Familiarity has its own comfort.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394;">But, in a millisecond of time the reality of camel backs and
straw spines become cold stone fact.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394;">When ‘that which does not kill you makes you stronger’ becomes
an ominous echo of inverted meaning. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394;">The boulder speaks in granite tones too hard to ignore.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: #0b5394;">Did you not remember that even Jesus died?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Reeling at the un-sensical pouring out of vengeance and
death as Herod’s rage stains the earth yet again, I see that quiet Baby in the
soft manger hay sleeping amidst a twinkling torrent of star-eyed angels; safe in
<i>temporis</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394;">But we know this will not last and Mary’s heart will break
over and over again until it is so large that only Heaven itself can hold it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394;">The boulder rolls on bruising out a cyclical message across
the landscape of time:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Death is inevitable as night. Innocents
suffer. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394;">The thrones of earth silence voices, we learn, but not the
sound of weeping.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Rock begats rock; flint sharpens flint like rage fuels rage.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394;">We see no end to Sisyphus’s nightmare or to twisted truth,
hog-tied and harnessed by influence.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394;">But that rock. That unmanageable stone sitting like death
itself, <i>it rolls away.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Moved by liquid love dropped for Lazarus and his grieving
friends, the welcoming of strange ones to supper, the outstretched open hand to
stem suffering of another, that boulder lifted. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Weight shifted, borne aloft by physics of light: laughter
defying gravity. For what is more joyful than Love?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394;">The boulder ceased to burden. Unfolded like a curtain until
Tolkien’s ‘far green country opened up under a swift sunrise’ and a new day
arrived for all.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394;">It is hard to see that death itself is not the triumphant
answer to this essential tale of Light and Dark.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Look deeper, unflinchingly through pain and the
inevitability of death, rage of power, and false naming of ‘the other:’ <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">There. A sunbeam dances on a
dandelion emerging through a cement crack.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">The tree, cracked in two by the
storm, sends up a green shoot.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">The rains arrive and small seeds
swell.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394;">An elder hands me a bit of bread torn from a small loaf.<br /> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Exhaling, I’m able to mirror back this small sliver of grace
given me by sharing the cup.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394;">We breathe together. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0b5394;">The stars and stones align.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUibWmIH0ovdcvN5SAqrPbuRU1ixQKggT9kthAVJrJoeQchelzIw5ZDalyidjXsQQlTmHxiUaR19hB_T14ky3mQaUtFyIiKXdluNBxzmRvfqJ_OI8VuZ8eikEAz53Hn0DHXpC5EBCPK30fkvUqTNEHoTJZ9eiG-nM56ZYq3U1QCJMb02ITwFqnIzw-Kksk/s750/2023-10-07.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="571" data-original-width="750" height="488" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUibWmIH0ovdcvN5SAqrPbuRU1ixQKggT9kthAVJrJoeQchelzIw5ZDalyidjXsQQlTmHxiUaR19hB_T14ky3mQaUtFyIiKXdluNBxzmRvfqJ_OI8VuZ8eikEAz53Hn0DHXpC5EBCPK30fkvUqTNEHoTJZ9eiG-nM56ZYq3U1QCJMb02ITwFqnIzw-Kksk/w640-h488/2023-10-07.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span><p></p>jemmagirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09138365720256111900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6386021597538792396.post-76621898768002809832021-12-04T21:39:00.001-08:002021-12-04T21:39:40.549-08:00Redemption<p> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">December gardens are cold and wet as the
Pacific surf,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Limp as seaweed strewn across channels of
rain draining into a larger sea.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Tomato plant pride, after weeks boisterous
with green and laden with red, lie limp beside other pale stems, now just
memories of a summer’s worth of peppers, eggplant, and squash as big as
footballs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Time deferred is time lost in a garden. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">There is no hold that can be placed on
growing things, no pause or backspace on the riches of seasons. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">The sun, save for that one Elijah moment,
moves with persistent passion in a horizon arc, our Earthship harnessed to
giant tresses circling it in a pedantic yet predicable cycle of moody
encounters: now warm, now cool, with now and again Goldilocks moments of
perfection. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Fall rain washes the air and slakes the
thirst of soil and trees. I hear the old horse coughing out the dry dust of
summer and breathing in the night air, humid with life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Winter rain plumps moss like green pillows
lining sleeping logs and etching waving limbs so that slender grey-brown bark
is festooned with winter-green, and further laced with drops that catch moonlight
and cast a silver sheen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">We live in this moment, in this promise of
redemption, in this seasonal shift.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Renewal of water-stores and bone-rest,
foundational in their primacy, gracefully prepares the way for the resilience
of spring and abundance of summer. But now, now is <i>this</i> essential
moment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Winter skies clarify star vision. There is
no sky gazing like winter sky gazing where stars strum and throb above us like
platinum plums, and moon beams form Lazarus ladders linking heaven and earth. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">The horses and I watch the night grow large
and light and through half-lids I see angels dance holding in their cupped
hands the moment of Birth. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">The tiny Appaloosa beats a soft rhythm with
her small hooves. The old buckskin nods and snorts and my two gentle giants
gaze skyward high and long. I hear the gelding’s airy whicker, the long sigh of
the mare, and a stirring breeze in the tall trees. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Together we touch this moment, tasting snow
sifting over us like a clean blanket from heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Redemption is born. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQeSZRBuZ_qfNWXvCrg9R73iNs9lz05owZ3U_jvOxECf5lWeoifHo32OUEWrQzUFxf6pKN0IhO5wQv8jbNPSLGxqej44384Eveh827U6bDFtgzOQYeok5g4YbDCkqJvGc_Nb_WY_Qbl7eF/s1531/Card2021.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1531" data-original-width="1282" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQeSZRBuZ_qfNWXvCrg9R73iNs9lz05owZ3U_jvOxECf5lWeoifHo32OUEWrQzUFxf6pKN0IhO5wQv8jbNPSLGxqej44384Eveh827U6bDFtgzOQYeok5g4YbDCkqJvGc_Nb_WY_Qbl7eF/w536-h640/Card2021.png" width="536" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: medium;">Merry Christmas from Faith & Vincent</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>jemmagirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09138365720256111900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6386021597538792396.post-69338021151969928872020-12-01T20:31:00.000-08:002020-12-01T20:31:08.699-08:00Grace<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;">There is a space in the innermost sanctum of heart-mind where hope lives and joy frames the doorway to a world where dandelions and dragonflies dance.</span></p><p><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;">There is a space in the innermost sanctum of heart-mind where dread dwells and draws shadows down disguising all exits. </span></p><p><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;">We seek patterns, meaning, sense, to dark dawns and thirst for sudden joy. </span></p><p><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;">But mind is like a railway track switching destinations relentlessly:
In a blink, we arrive in dread, or hope, or a far-off place where lonely poets hide; </span></p><p><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;">a no-where vista set for watching mind-trains. </span></p><p><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;"> It is in this hour of hate and hope and viral fear, </span></p><p><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;">It is in this moment of time, with brilliant rainbow blazes of hope and dark depths of crawling chaos, </span></p><p><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;"> It is in this second of sunlight’s wane and midnight mania, </span></p><p><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;">That journey is sensed. </span></p><p><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;">That meaning may live in small milliseconds of movement toward hard love. </span></p><p><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;">That mind may be secondary to the journey of soul, moving with quiet caterpillar feet in tiny undulations and circular wandering
with elastic pre-memory of cocoons and wings; caves and stars. </span></p><p><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #073763; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Poppins;">A small river rises in the East, </span><span style="font-family: Poppins;">a surging Baptism, </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;">and the West wonders at stars and signs and a virgin birth.
</span></p><p><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;">The Christ-Child delivered by, in, from Love moves in a soul-journey so unwise to us who weigh all things by gain and direction. </span></p><p><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;">For this journey is small and circular with elastic pre-memory of angels and glory.</span></p><p><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;">This journey is neonate and fragile, yet robustly rich in the persistence of Life. </span></p><p><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;">This journey is barn-common, yet singular, unique as a snowflake or the footprint of an imploding star. </span></p><p><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;">Grace is born to <i>us</i>; </span></p><p><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;">Gift and Glory in a tiny journey of eternal proportions. '</span></p><p><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwUqI462XhKRi_gXiitMoE5U6JOUXH6ynshb-SNpQIHO6u9q7NqaoV1PDDBvcxokz7DsFVLPAbFFZ_F7SroLQMN2Z1HP8XcqgC-caT8sHgrcD-Ew0oNbtPhfJ07D3f_PKUMwDg5hYG6wY5/s1000/Xmas_2009.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwUqI462XhKRi_gXiitMoE5U6JOUXH6ynshb-SNpQIHO6u9q7NqaoV1PDDBvcxokz7DsFVLPAbFFZ_F7SroLQMN2Z1HP8XcqgC-caT8sHgrcD-Ew0oNbtPhfJ07D3f_PKUMwDg5hYG6wY5/s320/Xmas_2009.png" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFBwX5ht4eGyowVUNtfCtxWBMTAZSM1mMdz1QsZQapo3PghnOqJ98Y8w2ZfVSltdQK_zUNiZR9UwlYF6rhHMfQhBkSD7wgRiLwWoc-DBCbH_jLA75mB12CzCzkRHQbwzVq3Ia-eJpBgteg/s2543/20190115_110638+-+Copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1236" data-original-width="2543" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFBwX5ht4eGyowVUNtfCtxWBMTAZSM1mMdz1QsZQapo3PghnOqJ98Y8w2ZfVSltdQK_zUNiZR9UwlYF6rhHMfQhBkSD7wgRiLwWoc-DBCbH_jLA75mB12CzCzkRHQbwzVq3Ia-eJpBgteg/w640-h312/20190115_110638+-+Copy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;"><i>Greetings in this Holy Season from Fox Song Farm</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;"> Faith Richardson, Christmas 2020 </span></p>jemmagirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09138365720256111900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6386021597538792396.post-72485411983191407512020-08-26T15:52:00.001-07:002020-08-29T19:12:40.999-07:00Taglines as therapeutic touchstones<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMn-LELKaP288lqmIEEVcvZOXHANF85RU4HsROqpzylxFHTva0E1NZ52fKaMDPYKJofylriFjfcvnoP9QJNrgpaOtHOQ_961-n5_xpyZtTvj1iRq2O1Jpb7ouSq6MgTsk1Jq5fKjiP6Fjm/s647/oracles+stones+Andrea+Pratt.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="647" data-original-width="647" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMn-LELKaP288lqmIEEVcvZOXHANF85RU4HsROqpzylxFHTva0E1NZ52fKaMDPYKJofylriFjfcvnoP9QJNrgpaOtHOQ_961-n5_xpyZtTvj1iRq2O1Jpb7ouSq6MgTsk1Jq5fKjiP6Fjm/w400-h400/oracles+stones+Andrea+Pratt.webp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="text-align: left;">Medicine stones painted by </span><a href="https://www.andreapratt.com/" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">Andrea Pratt, artist</a></span></div><p></p><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Taglines as therapeutic touchstones</span></i></b></h3><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">T</span>aglines</b> have become an expected element of our economic
landscape, but can be valuable in therapeutic work, too. In this era of
business branding, developing an effective tagline is a necessary step in
marketing strategy. I have learned, however, that creating a personal tagline
that speaks to your own essence and mission or life purpose can be a powerful
therapeutic tool, especially useful during times of transition. There is
something about a simple, clear statement that reminds others—and
yourself—about what is important to you and what you bring to the world that can
provide sudden clarity on a dark day. Personal taglines can act as touchstones
when life tumbles around us like a chaotic whirlwind. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">So, what is a tagline? A tagline is in effect a punch line:
the zinger! It is that little statement following a business name that provides
a quick understanding of the company’s personality and mission. Big ones we
have heard umpteen zillion times are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Verizon: <i>“Can you hear me now?”<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Microsoft<i>: Be what’s next.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Apple: <i>Think different.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Nike: <i>Just do it.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">McDonald's: <i>I’m loving it.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">The skillful use of taglines are that they often shift over
time and size of the company. When the company is small and new, taglines are
designed more to answer the question of what a company does, or why we need them,
or how they intend to improve their customers’ lives. Over time and multiple
uses, the company grows and gets more known and the tagline evolves to a simple
snapshot of the company—one that conveys an emotion, aspiration, or the one-two
punch that captures the companies essence in a tiny package of three to five
words.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFEydiySmRqjj3avImCwREVruYqJsng6r0CbZNGU5wV86Mo0H1t7jRB8MsAZsk4nTETPATQqjfQv8S5NH7PHm63zHYgNRKGiXEtb7MoKTuyolgl1GHYQowt3U4aDYiaNQCegjqFFKS5nNg/s472/KindleHealth+logo+cropped.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="293" data-original-width="472" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFEydiySmRqjj3avImCwREVruYqJsng6r0CbZNGU5wV86Mo0H1t7jRB8MsAZsk4nTETPATQqjfQv8S5NH7PHm63zHYgNRKGiXEtb7MoKTuyolgl1GHYQowt3U4aDYiaNQCegjqFFKS5nNg/w302-h187/KindleHealth+logo+cropped.jpg" width="302" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br />The tagline for Kindle Health, my ecotherapy practice, is: <i>I
help people rekindle their joy</i>. That, in a nutshell, is what I aspire to do
in my health and wellness counseling, coaching, and writing. The tagline for
Fox Song Farm, the site and context of my ecotherapy and equine-guided work is,
<i>Come home to your herd</i>. I like this tagline as it completely describes
the calm welcome that the horses as a herd offer to clients. It also holds true
of the goat family and chicken flock. All seem to have a notably kind curiosity
toward visitors! And, I love hearing that contended sigh as clients look around
and settle, leaning against a fence or sitting in a chair on the deck overlooking
the field, watching the horses and goats.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOEOlua5MROrGh0yMkzMDQrhY4hM5nlb7IcZo34V61Fcyt1_QhMWBQgYtvsgeeToeO1KTGi9wcV9gjRLK3IwaZYiN9mX3BLNdkPlRoT8mdu3obBUXSQzhOfdCZ-capgloovK89KoSi3fwo/s452/FSF+and+KH+profile+small.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="284" data-original-width="452" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOEOlua5MROrGh0yMkzMDQrhY4hM5nlb7IcZo34V61Fcyt1_QhMWBQgYtvsgeeToeO1KTGi9wcV9gjRLK3IwaZYiN9mX3BLNdkPlRoT8mdu3obBUXSQzhOfdCZ-capgloovK89KoSi3fwo/w362-h227/FSF+and+KH+profile+small.png" width="362" /></a></div><br /><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">I often work with student nurses who are nearing graduation
and still concerned about how they answer questions of medical colleagues,
patients, and even family and friends about who they are and what they do as a
nurse. Yes, even in 2020 nurses still find it difficult to explain what makes
them distinct from physicians and why they have chosen nursing rather than
medicine. I find that having students write 2-minute elevator speeches help
student nurses begin to truly define their distinctively unique nursing
perspective. Often what comes out of the elevator speech is a lovely, succinct
tagline that they can use to quickly sum up who they are as a person and what
they bring to the nursing or healthcare table. I love to see their shoulders
straighten and drop and that sparkle in their eyes when they launch those words
that just feel right. Taglines can truly flash a picture of who we are and
communicate our essentials to others. They are kind of a mental business card,
I suppose! I’ve heard from students how their tagline provides them with a
quick touchstone response when they are overwhelmed in a situation or feeling intimidated
by those around them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">As I was idly watching the horses while cleaning the barn
today, I realized that I have more than enough material to write taglines for
each of the equine characters living on Fox Song Farm:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Puck: <i>“I
help people question their fears.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Tivio: <i>“Hay,
I’m here. For you.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Arael: <i>“I
see you.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Penelope:
<i>“Size is a mental construct.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOvzrg6xhjNvi1h3GcNtz2xy4Mg7Fs1Z013vSLaTVKzsRhlB0DdzV_S4KWjvMJ31ceiyRoqi3au2yUelVp4J6SFEEVSFzO1sZTV11SdG_XWEnRpx5gr6t2tXG9EOSufLKT8iQFIxsPcvO6/s2543/20190901_111830.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1236" data-original-width="2543" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOvzrg6xhjNvi1h3GcNtz2xy4Mg7Fs1Z013vSLaTVKzsRhlB0DdzV_S4KWjvMJ31ceiyRoqi3au2yUelVp4J6SFEEVSFzO1sZTV11SdG_XWEnRpx5gr6t2tXG9EOSufLKT8iQFIxsPcvO6/s640/20190901_111830.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br />Puck’s tagline came almost immediately. Puck has a huge,
athletic body and is in constant motion. He loves to get close to people and
connects graciously, but his big size can be intimidating. Puck does tend to
push boundaries and cause people to confront fear and trust. Tivio, my puppy
dog quarter horse, loves hugs and his food, and yes, often in that order.
Enough said!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beautiful Arael generally
appears to be in the background, which is deceptive as she is the lead mare of the
Fox Song herd. She notices everything, and I value her reactions to situations
and people. I learn most from watching Arael with a new client. Penelope is our
miniature appaloosa. Although she is physically the youngest and smallest horse
in the herd, she has an old soul and I often call her my wise woman. When doing
therapy work, Penelope is decisive and determined. When Penelope ‘speaks,’ we
all listen.<o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Well, that was fun! Want to write your own tagline for
yourself, your business or career, or your own pets? Here are some tips:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ol start="1" style="margin-top: 0in;" type="1">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Keep it simple and short.
Taglines are stronger if they convey one idea that is understood easily.
Don’t use more than 5-7 words at most. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">One simple way to begin is
to distill into a word or two what it is you do, what is most important to
you, or your essential purpose. A simple phrase to begin this is the word,
“I ….” For example, “I help …” or “I can …” or “I will …” can lead into
several directions, but the focus is on YOU and what YOU DO. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">If the first part of the
tagline is about you and what you do, your essential purpose, the second
half of the tagline is about what you do for others, community, clients,
profession. This simple meaning can come from a phrase … “I can …,” “I
provide …,” “I give …..” Or, for me, it was, “I help …” as in, “I help
people rekindle their joy.”<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Think about the ‘feel’ of
the words you choose. What emotion do you want to convey, or to produce in
someone on the receiving end? For example, the blend of emotions I wanted
for ‘<i>I help people rekindle their joy,’</i> was a remembering, or
nostalgia, for recalling when we have experienced personal passion and joy
in our lives. The choice of the word ‘rekindle’ had a two fold reason:
to give the feeling of relighting a flame inside us, as well as a nod to
my practice name, Kindle Health. For ‘<i>Come home to your herd,’</i> the
emotion was a warm, homey feeling of belonging. After you have the content
of what you are all about, you can choose language that conveys the
feeling you want others to experience. Although this emotional stuff feels
like it would be unimportant, the funny thing is that this step often produces
that quintessential bit that turns out to be the biggest contributor to
your tagline. Frequently, people rewrite their tagline completely when
they discover the right emotion they want to convey. By choosing the words
that best portray the feeling often comes a stronger message!<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Not sure where to start?
Look for inspiration with power words that inspire you or move you in some
way. Google a thesaurus and start word shopping! Write down the words that
either feel like a match to your essential self, or that move you toward
what you aspire to be or do. Then, with those self-identified power words,
go back to tips two and three and begin to try these out in the short
sentence linking who you are and what you bring to the world. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ol>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Elevator speeches and taglines can be powerful ways of
bringing us back to the existential question of <i>who am I?</i> and <i>what is
my purpose, or mission on this earth?</i> Especially during times of
transition, deeply reflected upon phrases can be touchstones for us. They also
can help remind us of why we do what we do, even when the world does not seem
to notice our efforts. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5C8oP7SII5DPWHwx7f-n6QMe9TFLEFjtYoxASiQEE71LwKRBjCFIpczgIOWtewLBTDFa1WYf3UmLtC4LgT5xf5xezqUJysHw36AHk69Lhrp0QVWxEln3XitKFZJ_rcUro-wQYnde2oHZv/s576/FSB+fiction.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="576" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5C8oP7SII5DPWHwx7f-n6QMe9TFLEFjtYoxASiQEE71LwKRBjCFIpczgIOWtewLBTDFa1WYf3UmLtC4LgT5xf5xezqUJysHw36AHk69Lhrp0QVWxEln3XitKFZJ_rcUro-wQYnde2oHZv/w295-h220/FSB+fiction.jpg" width="295" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br />For several years, I had to put my fiction writing on the
back burner as I developed my nursing career and continued my education. Then,
life happened, and bill-paying needed to take priority while we experienced
medical challenges in the family. Through these years, I struggled often to
understand a seemingly stymied life purpose. Many, many times I went back to
the tagline that I had developed years earlier while working with Madeleine
L’Engle as her teaching assistant in a creative writing course. <o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG8oZRQ2fxisFuXSjCn2C9wt2HVVOhjqcD-2_R9Hi0WYavdfQLauwSvg1QiZLlH63d0CzW3E6L8-x1vw3pxMj1mRLDNP-Es6N_-dlCGl5UyvgTenoNTD9IOfyR7oUgy3XPf2JqBcQz3AMe/s2543/20200826_152906.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2543" data-original-width="1236" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG8oZRQ2fxisFuXSjCn2C9wt2HVVOhjqcD-2_R9Hi0WYavdfQLauwSvg1QiZLlH63d0CzW3E6L8-x1vw3pxMj1mRLDNP-Es6N_-dlCGl5UyvgTenoNTD9IOfyR7oUgy3XPf2JqBcQz3AMe/w159-h328/20200826_152906.jpg" width="159" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br />Although we didn’t call them elevator speeches or tag lines then, Madeleine had us all introduce ourselves with a short 'blurb' about who we were and what was important to us. I had just been accepted into nursing school and was struggling to understand this new path that, although felt
right, would undoubtedly take me away from writing full time. I remember
standing on the University lawn where we had assembled the class and clutching
my brand-new stethoscope as a visual aid, giving my little talk and ending it
with: “Although these two paths, writing and nursing seem unconnected, what I am
realizing is that they are both about my intention to promote healing. <i>I
heal through my hands and my words</i>.” That tagline truly has become my
touchstone through the years, especially during times when I could not find
time or energy to write fiction. The core of my essence, or life-mission,
remained, healing; I was simply doing it a different way for a time. As well, I
strove to have my academic writing be creative and inspiring and healing in its
own way. I am sure that I haven’t always met my own bar for this, but the
intention has been there, and my tagline-touchstone helped keep this in my line
of sight. <o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7igb7huCAeWclhbB8zQcqBOL5-JGLNVOXd9573tI923Ux8NGknhwAwsfGjSONBPms9QBX9xIALpa2c3IIPDENfCWCuJY4-4_fLOILDsUOlVTWEHad6r2YXqJWwm5vtto9-0Rg7cxPXDjo/s2543/20200825_152624.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1236" data-original-width="2543" height="127" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7igb7huCAeWclhbB8zQcqBOL5-JGLNVOXd9573tI923Ux8NGknhwAwsfGjSONBPms9QBX9xIALpa2c3IIPDENfCWCuJY4-4_fLOILDsUOlVTWEHad6r2YXqJWwm5vtto9-0Rg7cxPXDjo/w262-h127/20200825_152624.jpg" width="262" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br />This afternoon a big heavy box was delivered to our door.
When I opened it up, I found copies of the newly published nursing reference
text that was a three-year writing project. Although this academic writing
project was not ‘fun’ in the same sense as writing stories and poems are
stimulatingly mesmerizing for me, again, my tagline kept me on track. I kept my
intention to heal through my words. In a very real way, this nursing text is a
demonstration of healing with my hands and my words.<o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Taglines as touchstones. For me, they have for many years
kept me joyfully moving on mission. Maybe for you, too?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://wellspring.ca/edmonton/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2019/01/TouchStone.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="339" data-original-width="800" height="260" src="https://wellspring.ca/edmonton/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2019/01/TouchStone.jpg" width="614" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><p></p>jemmagirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09138365720256111900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6386021597538792396.post-29443539687539650612020-08-19T13:34:00.002-07:002020-08-20T07:25:49.096-07:00Grief agendas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaKvkS6yMdH5f8l51r_EmwcKixoa0VKmB6A4-EaQpFw3rElWFsT7iWsFAWHMV0Bx_1lCh9x5gcYrAOyFOuGNGACUtR-otwXBAUOAm3YbpkkuLbI6SrCOb2EySK7rV3qNqdyW25ZYrl9Et-/s1854/Galina+Doubroff+Memorial+Presentation+with+music_Page_03.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="983" data-original-width="1854" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaKvkS6yMdH5f8l51r_EmwcKixoa0VKmB6A4-EaQpFw3rElWFsT7iWsFAWHMV0Bx_1lCh9x5gcYrAOyFOuGNGACUtR-otwXBAUOAm3YbpkkuLbI6SrCOb2EySK7rV3qNqdyW25ZYrl9Et-/w512-h271/Galina+Doubroff+Memorial+Presentation+with+music_Page_03.png" width="512" /></a></span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Grief agenda, noun: <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><i><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">The inevitable, seemingly
relentless course of thought, action, behavior that follows deep loss.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">In a profound way for me and my siblings, the world ended
for us on March 24<sup>th</sup>, 2020. I was meeting with students by Zoom,
holding virtual office hours discussing a nursing students’ math requirement
for pharmacology, and I received a text, and then a phone call. First my sister
texting: <i>can you take a call?</i> Second, my mother’s caregiver phoning with
attending paramedics. My magnificent mom: singer, speaker, pianist, poet,
international humanitarian agency director (Ukrainian Children’s Christian
Fund) and girl-who-skipped-grade-four, was found unresponsive. <a href="https://www.flipsnack.com/foxsong/olga-olivia-balabanov-lapka.html" target="_blank">Olga OliviaBalabanov Lapka</a> had quietly slipped into eternity just at the beginning of the
Covid pandemic lockdown, therefore foiling any attempts we could make to have a
public Celebration of Life. It was perfectly done—as my mom would have
graciously accepted the gathering of friends from across five or more nations,
but, deep introvert that she was and hid so well, I think she probably
preferred the simple family and close friends send-off we had, rich in prayers
and steeped in love, in the spring sunlight, braced by a brisk breeze, gathered
where her body would rest beside my dad’s. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqr8T0IwwbwpHCExwooIDJ967cHx4_SNCUVYu9uOZTf1MJs2vDkt-DNf-iGgoK_QY3h7Nv21L3-7NCWlHWsg2BKScNPiRz5GpXZbRZfDJbushAk0yc9kWi_s3Wdx_NEbb9qPX8QC7wqgKw/s640/IMG_0401.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: trebuchet; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="Olga at home" border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqr8T0IwwbwpHCExwooIDJ967cHx4_SNCUVYu9uOZTf1MJs2vDkt-DNf-iGgoK_QY3h7Nv21L3-7NCWlHWsg2BKScNPiRz5GpXZbRZfDJbushAk0yc9kWi_s3Wdx_NEbb9qPX8QC7wqgKw/w192-h256/IMG_0401.JPG" width="192" /></a><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We are still reeling, as you can imagine. Although she was 93 years old and beginning to take more frequent cat naps </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">throughout the day, </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">our mom was still
busy in her large home office on her computer, writing receipts for charitable
donations to the mission she and my dad had founded, jotting down thoughts for
bulletin items, and emailing <a href="https://www.uccf-canada.org/" target="_blank">UCCF</a> workers in the Ukraine and Germany. In her
off time, Mom avidly read, wrote notes, kept up on news (TV and her daily
Vancouver Sun paper), cared for her two cats, Pepsi and Honey, and brought us
kids all up to speed on both current events and the antics of the racoon family
that routinely invaded her back yard. She had, only a very few months earlier,
stopped independently driving to attend Sunday morning services at her beloved
Gospel Hall in Richmond.</span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRZsjD0Mcf-VuS3EGL3_mHbhNwqkFZ9fJa6hb4A1d2n3oK8FE8bjkRyayFgMBGryJMmy8za2Spj9fN9YEhKVuNsensq5so84RdJkQCroW17ZY-pTaIkYmIQ1JhPMDKhUXFI6x0gGoe7E-i/s1024/20200818_173432.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; font-family: trebuchet; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="Olga with Honey and Pepsi" border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRZsjD0Mcf-VuS3EGL3_mHbhNwqkFZ9fJa6hb4A1d2n3oK8FE8bjkRyayFgMBGryJMmy8za2Spj9fN9YEhKVuNsensq5so84RdJkQCroW17ZY-pTaIkYmIQ1JhPMDKhUXFI6x0gGoe7E-i/w150-h200/20200818_173432.jpg" width="150" /></a><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">We humans were not the only ones whose lives were instantly altered. Mom's cats were heart broken. </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> Mom had raised these two from tiny
kittens, adopted them where they had been destined to live out notoriously
short lives as near-feral barn cats.</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">
</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Honey and Pepsi were brother and sister, both tabbies, but Honey was
orange tabby and Pepsi was a dark grey tabby. They had both grown into stately,
beautiful companions with a streak of mischievous fun. Both cats were highly
bonded to my mom, but Honey in particular never left her side in the few months
leading up to my mom’s passing. So much so, that my sister, another ‘cat lady,’
had a thought cross her mind that Honey might be signaling something that she
did not want to acknowledge—that Mom was getting ready to leave this earth.
Notoriously shy and disappearing when someone new entered the house, Honey
remained firmly seated beside Mom while the paramedics worked on her and stayed
beside her until the funeral home attendants carried her body away. Pepsi
wailed the entire night we were there, in what can only be described as a deep
grieving dirge.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Mom had asked me to be the cat’s ‘god mother,’ so, after our
small service, Honey and Pepsi were loaded into their traveling crates and made
the journey to Vancouver Island to our small farm in the Alberni Valley. We
tucked them into our guest room turned cat room, filling it with their own
familiar beds, dishes, toys, litter trays and even hung my mom’s wall clock
with the bird song on the hour on the wall and placed a couple of pairs of my
mom’s personal items in the room. Our own king-of-the-mountain Siamese cat,
Gabe, peeked in with interest as we prepared the room for our two newcomers. We
always described Gabe as a lover not a fighter as he always kept to himself and
out of any neighborhood cat drama. He also, at an early age, made friends with
a young street rat that he tried to convince us to allow in our home. We never
saw him with any ‘trophies’ thereafter; indeed, we had never known Gabe to lift
his paw to anything but friendly fun. I had high hopes that the cat ‘cousins’
would integrate peaceably. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuxkRVZIgfvNRE2kdvcPGb1PzizXFxwjPwx4Bu81UkJ9fdcFb0sN9TGUA95V-8HPvnH3LulmK_3LzjbAb383Dap1u7PN1ueJadkLZLxL8b0t10DduYKW647b6SsxItfdWbNKKSUT66Ql4R/s2048/20200819_132751.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1890" data-original-width="2048" height="155" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuxkRVZIgfvNRE2kdvcPGb1PzizXFxwjPwx4Bu81UkJ9fdcFb0sN9TGUA95V-8HPvnH3LulmK_3LzjbAb383Dap1u7PN1ueJadkLZLxL8b0t10DduYKW647b6SsxItfdWbNKKSUT66Ql4R/w168-h155/20200819_132751.jpg" width="168" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">I did not count on the scope of Honey and Pepsi’s grief, nor
on the depth of Gabe’s cherished identity as ‘only cat.’ Gabe had grown up in a
household of pairs: two of us and two Dalmatian dog-sisters. The horses, goats,
and chickens were family groups too, but Gabe stood alone. And he liked it that
way. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">After 10 days in isolation from the rest of the animals, we
began to leave the guestroom door ajar in the evening to allow the cats an
opportunity to explore the rest of the house while the other animals were
confined to another part of the house. After a couple of weeks of this, we
began allowing an opportunity for paths to cross in the evening when we were in
the house. It didn’t go well. Maggie, our Dalmatian was fine—she had a vague
interest in the new smells but was politely uninterested otherwise. Gabe and
Pepsi did a weird air-boxing routine that ended up with Pepsi running up the
living room drapes to perch on the curtain rod as if it were the crow’s nest of
a pirate ship. And down he would not come, even after Gabe was hustled off to
the other part of the house. After nearly three days, he was persuaded to come
down, spitting and kicking, and he rushed to the guestroom to fill up on food
and water and ‘unload’ as it were. Soon, we saw him sleeping on our bed and
seemingly unconcerned, purring a greeting to me. The crow’s nest episode was a
turning point for him. Pepsi, newly christened Parry from his habit of
answering everything by parrying back a cat remark, was suddenly becoming one
of the family.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Honey remained oblivious to everything and seemed only
concerned with either hiding under the bed or seeking a way out of the house. Honey
had never made any attempt to connect with us during those 10 days enclosed in
the guestroom or the weeks of evenings in the house while we quietly sat by or
slept in our bed, door open. She never looked at us even while eating her
meals. She refused to join in and play or explore with a cat’s curiosity this
new house with strange farm smells and clucking crowing chickens just outside
the window.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She never ran from Gabe nor
approached him. She simply avoided any contact. We would only see her in a
relentless, silent search for an open door or window. Eventually, she would
find one. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><a href="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a3/20/7a/a3207aa3165d7789aebbd3a094df09cf.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="500" height="250" src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a3/20/7a/a3207aa3165d7789aebbd3a094df09cf.jpg" width="166" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">One morning, Honey was gone. Her grief agenda was to go.
Never connect, never look back. Somehow, her brother Pepsi, had made a
different choice. His grief agenda was to be family, be loved and connected to
our household, the farm, us. The goodbye between this brother and sister was
complete and soundless. Pepsi stayed; Honey left. We live in a rural area with
neighbors that look out for each other and are in a small valley of animal
lovers. We text and call each other if someone’s animal is out or possibly in
trouble, and we’ve been known to leave our beds in the middle of the night to
help corral someone’s cows or horses who have wandered out of the safety of
their fields. No one has seen Honey. It is summer, and there is lots to eat and
drink in the fields and barns and sheds to shelter within. She may travel, need
time and space, and maybe we will see her again toward fall. Or, she may have
found another older soul to move in with and companion; one whose essence is
not as painfully similar to mine, but one who needs her. My sister prefers to
think the latter.<o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Grief agendas are powerful forces. I’ve watched as my
brother has become more connected to family, my older sister returning to
essentials, sharing grace and gratitude, and my younger sister again embrace
composing, singing and recording of music, so much a part of mom’s life. For
myself, writing has demanded I give it more time; words and other worlds are another
legacy-remembrance of my mom who encouraged and edited all my fiction from book
one and before. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">When we lose someone beloved, the indelible mark we feel is
life-altering. Grief agendas are written from a place within us that is not
necessarily connected to our pre-frontal cortex and executive function. Grief
agendas do not seem to be a choice and have more in common with a drive or
reaction, in that we find ourselves in a different place than we were before
the split second of grief impacted us. Grief agendas are not decisions made to
improve our lives to honor the passing of someone admired, rather they are the
aftermath of lightning bolt-grief that has seemingly burned us to the
ground-soul of who we were. What we are left with is the cobbling together of
meaning and memory on the art board of this raw, razed self. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">In a way, a grief agenda is the final, terrible gift given
to us upon the departure of our loved one. Perhaps that is why we want to hold
onto grief so desperately. It is the last connection that has been physically
drawn on the cognitive heart of our person. To lose grief is to lose that
immediate last connection. We fear the loss of the loss, because we fear a
void. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifQ20bZUcjxAckPoCnmq71-dWu-1RiVOUfxxlJgnffIEywNWsnLOGvWR4hilCkOHjnQh0XxZjZQP5_Ktr3220x_g6-2qiLpOxExoNEoClnqBGJeJNqdtSI1OYsll2fdPbIeuxI_s81hBip/s2048/garden+doorway.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: trebuchet; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="doorway to garden" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1367" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifQ20bZUcjxAckPoCnmq71-dWu-1RiVOUfxxlJgnffIEywNWsnLOGvWR4hilCkOHjnQh0XxZjZQP5_Ktr3220x_g6-2qiLpOxExoNEoClnqBGJeJNqdtSI1OYsll2fdPbIeuxI_s81hBip/w171-h256/garden+doorway.jpg" width="171" /></a><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">If we consciously allow ourselves to be carried by our grief </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">agenda, we learn that we are not left with nothingness. Indeed, we are left
with the germinating seeds of what will grow after our catastrophic loss. Like the
green after a brush fire, saplings emerge. Painfully, perhaps; unplanned, certainly.
And here is where, I think, our choice returns to us. </span><i style="font-family: trebuchet;">Which saplings will we
prune, bolster, nurture?</i><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> I find, that as I write and speak, I am a bit braver,
a bit clearer, and a whole lot more heart- and head-strong about what I will
write about. I am also more ruthless about the time I have to accomplish what I
must. Legacy work has become essential work.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Grief agendas ruthlessly pare out the nonessential. In grief
lies the gift of clarity, of what is meaningful, what stands the test of time,
is purpose-filled, core-honest, but not self-gratuitous. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/narnia/images/e/ef/Ruinscharn.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120528141235" style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: trebuchet; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="Ruins of the city of Charn in Narnian Chronicles" border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="624" height="200" src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/narnia/images/e/ef/Ruinscharn.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120528141235" width="155" /></a><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">I suppose, in writing the eulogy of others we learn to listen
for the ring of truth, to recognize <i>her</i>, the core-gift of the person we
loved. We need to uncover the nugget, reach the diamond depth of understanding <i>her</i>
astonishing uniqueness. We are distressed when we hear a tribute that feels
false, that piles platitudes like straw that obscures rather than clarifies this
person-gift to us. Truth, like Charn’s time-waking end-of-days bell in the
Narnian chronicles, really does bring to finality our loss, but in doing </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">so,
truth set us free to resonate with others and appreciate the bitter-sweet
present moment where time flowed into eternity. In writing, and listening to
our beloved’s life story, we learn what stands the test of time; purpose lived
that may have appeared mundane but was foundational gold. We are given the
choice to groom, bend, prune the saplings freshly rooted in our own lives.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Grief agendas are in one sense mysterious and in another
sense blazingly obvious. It is easy in the normal slippage of days where
workdays merge and weekends are either hectic or passed in stuporous recovery
mode, to overlook even the blazingly obvious grief agenda. Reflecting,
remembering, reminiscing, all help us to recognize our individual agenda, or
direction, that our heart-core has written. When we succumb to and follow our own
grief agenda, what we find is that a core-purpose of our beloved was in fact to
birth, shape, and prepare us for our own life-work. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">That is the agape, or God-like love that is shared between
souls; love that is lived action rather than simply shared emotion. Rarely a
huge event, rather it is the living side-by-side, sharing of time and stories,
walking and working alongside, struggling through everyday fortunes and
misadventures. Whether transparent exchanges of communication and love are
remembered or obscure fits and starts of trying and failing are more readily
recalled, as proverbs state, “iron sharpens iron” and “faithful are the wounds
of a friend.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">I believe that there is a healing of the raw brokenness that
grief imparts by faithfully following grief’s agenda. I think that it begins
with accepting the legacy gift that is ourselves. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://northernwoodlands.org/images/articles/Ben_Levitt_Thistle_Sum19.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: trebuchet; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="thistle" border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="522" height="200" src="https://northernwoodlands.org/images/articles/Ben_Levitt_Thistle_Sum19.jpg" width="131" /></a><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">I took a break from writing to go cut thistles that have
come up in our garden yard with my scythe. (Yes, the odd mental image of the
grim reaper did pop into my mind, as I ruminated over this piece!) Many of the thistles
had reached that pretty stage of soft purple flowers just </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">unfolding. My love of
the natural beauty of wildflowers and support for honeybees and hummingbirds
always compete with my pragmatic side in these moments. But, of course, the
need to lop these picturesque blooms is so that they will not be pollinated and
propagate more thistles. My scythe did its work and my garden has survived this
season’s thistle invasion. I watched as the honeybees simply shifted their
attention to the many squash, bean, and pea blossoms—a very good result! I
suppose that our choice to cultivate or cut down ‘stuff’ that piles into our
days is often as simple as scything the thistles was for me this morning; </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">legacy work and “iron sharpening iron” living
is generally about the small choices we make that fill the minutes of our days.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDKhdQ2pRbneCYEIUTyRpZK9ahfoKcmxXgZBecft9g_JfsCHxRCFxF1z2eijLUKpCK2zzn90IGPTf59koVbuZTWUm8SR_WHYrmck-s0yA5JGeW1IoPqRIwEbkCMGmdsBi-jLxxjp_IR-tL/s2048/20200818_172706.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: trebuchet; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="Parry at Fox Song Farm" border="0" data-original-height="1252" data-original-width="2048" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDKhdQ2pRbneCYEIUTyRpZK9ahfoKcmxXgZBecft9g_JfsCHxRCFxF1z2eijLUKpCK2zzn90IGPTf59koVbuZTWUm8SR_WHYrmck-s0yA5JGeW1IoPqRIwEbkCMGmdsBi-jLxxjp_IR-tL/w250-h153/20200818_172706.jpg" width="250" /></a><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">As I was gardening, I noticed that Mom’s Pepsi, now our
Parry, had come out to meditatively watch as I worked. He was commenting every
once in awhile as this cat is known to do. I’m guessing it was the first time
he had seen someone scything thistles, but he was not shy about offering
suggestions. I glanced at those big grey-green eyes and saw curiosity,
connection, cautious concern regarding evading a swinging arc of thistle plants
flying through the air. I also saw a calm trust that all would be well even in
this unprovoked battle with foliage. All will be well. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Grief </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">agendas, painful
as they are, hold a unique wisdom. Like an ocean tide, they will recede,
leaving new insights and fresh outlooks and an open shore swept clean. To use my
garden as an example, the removal of painful thistles allows my choice of seedlings
to grow unfettered and my fingers and toes the ability to do their work ‘ouchlessly’
when I pick my favorite Scallopini squashes and sugar snap peas.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">The loss of our mother means that the world is forever
changed. My everyday routine somehow feels unfamiliar and I still mentally
reach for the phone to share a moment with her several times a day. My footsteps
seem to echo down a lonelier road when I realize that I can never bounce ideas
off her again or get her editing input on any future draft manuscripts. My loss
is real, and my grief agenda has spun me into deeper reflection, more
concentrated writing times, and a more purposeful turning of pages to read stories
and writing that feed my soul. I find myself pouring over small notes I find in
her handwriting. Yes, there is loneliness, but not that of alone-ness, rather of
recognizing and re-recognizing the cataclysmic void that is left by her leaving
this plane of existence. In a truer sense, my siblings and I walk forward
united in the host of gifts we have received from Mom, my dad, my aunts,
uncles, cousins who have left us early. From all these precious ones, and Mom
in particular, we have been gifted with a love of learning and a frank curiosity
about life, an appreciation of sense and a delight in nonsense, abundant and easy
laughter and the joyful sharing of each other, music and story. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These gifts, carefully tended and abundantly
cultivated, may indeed grow into our own legacy gifts that flow to others on their
respective journeys. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Not every grief agenda leads to the same place—at least
within a similar timeline. Somewhere, an orange tabby cat makes her way along a
solitary path while her brother rests curled up beside me. Grief agendas are
rough and raw, painful and precious. Above all, they invoke a pause that allows
us to have a forthright encounter with our own core-essentials. Yes, the beloved
person-shaped void remains; but the beautiful and growing gifts sown over a
lifetime of authentic living continue to shine and bless us daily. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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peaches and the Narnian chronicles</b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="trebuchet"></font></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><font face="trebuchet"><br /></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><font face="trebuchet"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAW9b9Aa9HS7lFxJfdDwaQ6iTiHoGN0wX1mxPNSK5cTgVHwDrvf7X0gqco3ytlG8_dTiGZnMOkUVw2F56LKa493PzHMW8SUPhDpeBTBGpSKzKCuMpuXg_GSs4Oa3pGWe8OT2gpqD5lZY6h/s2048/20200731_094535.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAW9b9Aa9HS7lFxJfdDwaQ6iTiHoGN0wX1mxPNSK5cTgVHwDrvf7X0gqco3ytlG8_dTiGZnMOkUVw2F56LKa493PzHMW8SUPhDpeBTBGpSKzKCuMpuXg_GSs4Oa3pGWe8OT2gpqD5lZY6h/s640/20200731_094535.jpg" /></a></font></div><font face="trebuchet">Although picking peaches takes effort, to me it is not ‘work.’ Rather, each peach that makes its way into my bucket is a small, fragrant, sun-kissed
miracle. A peach tree in my back yard seems almost a stolen pleasure from the
warmer, drier climate where we, as a family, vacationed most summers. Most
years we would bring back a big cardboard box of peaches that we would enjoy while
helping my mom preserve them in large Mason jars. On the years we did not
travel to the Okanagan, an extended family member or friend would be sure to share
a few peaches with us from their trip to the Interior of BC. Now, in the rain
forest of the garden niche of the Alberni Valley of Vancouver Island, our small
peach tree flourishes and produces buckets of sweet and juicy seasonal treats. A
little miracle growing against the south-east side of our home.<o:p></o:p></font><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="trebuchet">Every year I am in a race to ‘whiff’ the peachy aroma that allows
me to recognize the moment the peaches are ready to harvest. Not just because I
love peaches so much, but to pick them before we are visited by our resident
black bear. He loves peaches and tasty miracles, too. I’m not sure if in the Island
Black Bear great annals of history there are references to peaches, but if
there were not, there are now, as our black bear is a meditative, reticent
soul, who loves his food, appreciates nature, and in all likelihood is a poet
and vegetarian. He has been known to rest in my neighbor’s plum tree, after a
good long snack, and have a quiet snooze while my neighbor’s steers rest below him
and chew their cud with contentment. It is not inconceivable that he holds
small audiences of recitations of his newest work, which I’m sure comes after only
the finest of forages. <o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="trebuchet">As I type this, the peaches that are still waiting to be
preserved into the gold-tinged, shining nectar-treat unstunningly known as ‘canned
peaches’ are in two buckets on the counter, giving off that peach perfume that
truly is a signature scent of summer. I almost feel sorry for our bear. But
seeing how in one night he nearly picked clean the Damson plum tree this year,
I remain hard-hearted. <o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="trebuchet">Peaches, to me, are one of those deep childhood connections </font></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><font face="trebuchet"><a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcTPz_4KnGpDj0wkrsI0WIqBwp0LnOOqXyO1QQ&usqp=CAU" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="237" data-original-width="212" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcTPz_4KnGpDj0wkrsI0WIqBwp0LnOOqXyO1QQ&usqp=CAU" /></a></font></div><font face="trebuchet">to
summer. Another closely aligned summer ritual is the reading of the Narnian
chronicles. For years, I reread C.S. Lewis’s stories every summer, lying on a
blanket under the nut trees, or sitting in a deck chair under the apple trees,
or lying on the grass and clover carpet of our horse field beside my grazing
ponies. When the rainy days came, and they often did on Canada’s Pacific coast,
there was more time to read and many places in our sprawling farmhouse to get
lost in another world between pages. I read the stories of Narnia in chronological
rather than publication order. The origin of Narnia, those shining green and
yellow rings worn by Digory and Polly, the quiet pools in the woods between the
worlds, dull red sun of Charn, that was how I began my Narnian journey every
summer. And every summer I dreaded the Last Battle when Narnia flamed out of
existence; but in a bracing, clear, vision that was panoramic in scope, I saw
how time was a small reflection of the True Eternal that flowed, unquenchable,
constant, Real. That Love and Truth were much more than ideas and aspirations,
and that we what we see now is not much more than we can by peeking through a
keyhole on a dark night. <o:p></o:p></font><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="trebuchet"></font></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><font face="trebuchet"><a href="https://thetalkingllama.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/71299-_26.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="329" data-original-width="501" height="168" src="https://thetalkingllama.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/71299-_26.jpg" width="257" /></a></font></div><font face="trebuchet">Much from the Narnian Chronicles has echoed for me this
summer of Covid and chaos. But one image in particular arises for me again and
again. It is from the Last Battle, that final story Lewis wrote about Narnia. Throughout
the stories of Narnia, the Dwarfs are a stalwart group. They are called ‘sons
of Earth’ and are known for their common sense, faithfulness, bravery, hard-working
nature, and kind ‘salt of the earth’ hearts towards others. In the Last Battle,
they are manipulated by a false king who has enslaved the land and they become bewildered,
angry, disillusioned and lose their faith in Aslan and in goodness. They begin
to draw away from their fellow Narnians and become cynical about anyone trying
to help rally a response to stand up to protect the creatures of Narnia and free
the country from its Calormene oppressors. In the final battle, they take up
arms, but instead of fighting to free Narnia, they fight against everyone: the Calormene
army as well as the Narnian freedom-fighters. Their battle chant is: “the
Dwarfs are for the Dwarfs.” <o:p></o:p></font><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="trebuchet">The sentiment doesn’t last long, though, because they also
begin to squabble with each other. But, misery loves company and while they are
nursing their own bumps and bruises, they say, “Well, at any rate there’s no
Humbug here. We haven’t let anyone take us in. The Dwarfs are for the Dwarfs.”
After trying numerous ways to wake them to the realization that they are free
and safe and in Aslan’s country, they remain unable to see or feel the
sunlight, meadow, picnic-banquet of food and wine, warm and clean clothes that
are given to them. Aslan’s response is a sorrowful, “They will not let us help
them. They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their
own minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that
they cannot be taken out.”<o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="trebuchet">I cannot help but see an echo in various groups of salt-of-the-earth
good people who have become cynical and are entangled and mired in one
conspiracy theory after another. Facebook memes, Twitter retweets, Youtube
video shares have become modern assault weapons battering at common sense and
straightforward simplicity. The casualties are not the right or left, conservative
or liberal, rather they are our careful processes of learning, such as
scientific method, unbiased ethics committees, and peer review. These ‘humbug’ bombs
are aimed at our own hard work to enlarge our thinking to hear others and
recognize where are structures have minimized the voices of others. They batter
our actions and stymie our work to tear down and rebuild systems that have
doors recognizable as open to everyone. They distort measures of considerate
care of neighbor and cast doubt on earnest attempts to promote health and
wellbeing. They have normal, hard-working and loving people questioning if
their leaders are poisoning children with vaccines, or if a virus was
constructed with alien DNA to ‘take out’ a segment of the population. Or that a
bit of cotton in front of our noses and mouths causes hypoxia. <o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="trebuchet">Conspiracy theories are so damaging to our thinking that
even contradictory beliefs do not trigger normal curiosity and rigorous
thought. For example, in ‘Plandemic,’ there are two origins of the current
Covid virus: that it was recently created in Wuhan, and also that it is from
previous vaccines, so we all have it already and that ‘mask wearing’ activates
it. Both cannot be true: vaccines were saving lives from polio and small pox
long before Wuhan had a lab. Following the random spiraling of conspiracy theory
is a deeply distracting and crazy-making. The only rational end to conspiracy
thinking is that no one is trustworthy. Better you than me type thinking; “the
Dwarfs are for the Dwarfs.”<o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="trebuchet">These conspiracy assault weapons do not discriminate; their
casualties are collectively all of us. Distrust and suspicion always hurt
everyone. We are meant to stand together and figure things out side by side,
voice by voice, thought by thought, vigorously and whole-mindedly. Sharing passionately
in conferences, papers, and in discussions with leaders who have earned their
stripes with unabashed openness and through making mistakes and publishing
studies that contradict their own earlier studies. That is the way learning
happens. That is the way mature leadership develops. As Maya Angelou said, “I
did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.” That’s
science. We do better with the humility that comes with knowing your own study
will likely, at some point, give way to a better study down the road. That the
road to knowing is honest toil and unhesitating transparency in peer review
under the watchful eye of stringent ethics boards. That better studies are
designed from the vantage point of previous studies. <o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="trebuchet"></font></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><font face="trebuchet"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgftiHa5wHReW5Wv2baJ9vM3fZjtGjQ3EvK_ojvn8iLHF-SWDi_FiOhSU0GKoXRyYe3roWHqj7Di-pb7nfkZwSmrhcYWfkvVLuGcWxihzEC-LXeAavUepGavHOdfU0prwx-uGhyBbho5YHs/s2543/20200731_093945.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1236" data-original-width="2543" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgftiHa5wHReW5Wv2baJ9vM3fZjtGjQ3EvK_ojvn8iLHF-SWDi_FiOhSU0GKoXRyYe3roWHqj7Di-pb7nfkZwSmrhcYWfkvVLuGcWxihzEC-LXeAavUepGavHOdfU0prwx-uGhyBbho5YHs/w328-h159/20200731_093945.jpg" width="328" /></a></font></div><font face="trebuchet">I want to live in the simple sublime summer of peach-picking
and recognize that when it comes down to it, I choose to stand by the simple
sanity of science and trust simple hearted folk who want to build up instead of
tearing down. Who refuse to lob conspiracy theories like Molotov Cocktails
through the instant Internet world. Who don’t have time to fear mask-wearing
because they are busy living, laughing, loving, and learning. Who pull people
out of burning buildings, patch people up in ERs, hold people’s hands when they
are dying, laugh a little and restock that toilet paper shelf again, who are in
their gardens and fields growing food, and designing lessons at midnight for
their students. Who are doing the quiet good neighbor things, who say sorry a
lot and mean it, who stare at the stars, eat peaches, read books, and who vote
for a leader who is a listener and a learner. <o:p></o:p></font><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="trebuchet">How about you? Are you with me, Narnians? </font></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/narnia/images/6/66/Fox3.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/340?cb=20130903104552" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="265" data-original-width="340" height="213" src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/narnia/images/6/66/Fox3.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/340?cb=20130903104552" width="273" /></a></div><font face="trebuchet"><br /></font><p></p><div>References</div><div><br /></div><div>Lewis, C.S (1950-1956). <i>The Chronicles of Narnia</i>, currently published by Harper Collins</div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.pinimg.com/600x315/0b/81/c6/0b81c63f160f8d3b2aca1700800c38bb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="381" height="243" src="https://i.pinimg.com/600x315/0b/81/c6/0b81c63f160f8d3b2aca1700800c38bb.jpg" width="476" /></a></div>jemmagirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09138365720256111900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6386021597538792396.post-80373059356144230002020-07-30T06:00:00.000-07:002020-07-30T06:00:06.914-07:00Popsicles and Numeracy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One of my projects this summer has been to put together a
short course on calculating medications for care givers. This on-line course is
meant to help prepare pre-nursing students and others to safely prepare
medication doses </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">based on prescribed amounts and drug labels. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Why is this
needed? I hear repeatedly how anxious nursing students are </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">about the math component of pharmacology and medication administration. I also hear from
parents, adult-children, and other family care givers that there are often
moments of confusion and concern when preparing doses for their family members.
Many very capable people experience moments of anxiety or self-doubt when required
to use math. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I have had my own angst about math that began during those
dreaded classroom drills in grade six and seven pushing mental calculations and
memorized times tables. All done from a well-meaning teaching perspective, but
to me, mentally paralyzing! </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">By high
school, I was identifying myself to others as ‘hating math,’ or, ‘not a math
person,’ but to myself as, ‘not smart enough to do math.’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Reflecting on earlier moments with math, </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I did not have that dread </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">or negative reaction as a kid. I remember how amazing Arithmetic was in
grade one. How the ‘aha’ light bulb went on while playing with Popsicle sticks
at the big Arithmetic table. Heaps of single Popsicle sticks, rubber-banded
bundles of ten Popsicle sticks, counting ten of those bundles out and stacking
them in a pile: 100 Popsicle sticks! </span></div>
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One bundle of ten and three singles: 13 Popsicle sticks! Okay, so I admit to this very day that I love Popsicle<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">.
Especially the orange ones. Maybe that is because of the big, round, orange
sticker I got from Miss Mudry for my good work at the Arithmetic table.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is true though, that after the dreaded mental math drills,
it took a while until I had another math-related Popsicle moment. One lazy
summer afternoon, eating Popsicle, I was idly throwing dice up in the air and
catching them after playing a table game on a blanket in the backyard with my
brother and sisters. A lovely breeze played through the hazel nut trees and the
dappled sun through branches sifted and shifted light as leaves fluttered. My
mind went back to </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">those dreaded mental math drills and before the walls of
shame had time to rise, the light and shadow, playing on those dice showed me
how the whole was made up of parts … how 5 was made up of 2 and 3 and if I
recognized the patterns of the dots—each dot a part of the whole—I could more
quickly arrive at an answer. Simply by visualizing patterns in the parts making
up a whole I could visualize the whole. Extrapolating from that popsicle
moment, I realized that I could ‘think in 10’s.’ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could move parts in and out to add in fives
and tens to estimate and calculate bigger numbers that were more difficult to add,
such as 27 and 58. I realized by adding 30 and 60, which was easy, and then
taking away 3 and 2, or five, was easy too. Suddenly grouping, or what I recognized
as seeing patterns of the parts making up the whole, made sense. Number sense!
Yeah for Arithmetic! Miss Mudry would have given me another orange sticker.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Preparing to write the <i>Calculations for Care givers</i> course, I went on a hunt and scanned educational studies on developing number sense, or numeracy, in the era of math anxiety. I came across Dorothea Steinke’s work. Steinke understands the foundation of numeracy to "be part-whole thinking, which she defines as the ability to deconstruct quantities, keep track of the parts, put the parts back together in a different way to solve a math problem, and know that the answer makes sense" (Steinke, 3). Whatever numeracy was, I seemed to at least have an A, B, C understanding of it, thanks to a lazy afternoon throwing dice on a blanket in a nut orchard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Numeracy, I learned, was a different way of looking at numbers from the math my high school and college profs represented. Their approach was to do
their utmost to prepare me to understand higher levels of math thinking—abstract conceptual math. Utterly beautiful but requiring a discipline and
passion that I was not able to give to it. Instead, numeracy is the ability to work
with numbers in the context of their purpose and use. Numeracy focuses on a
working relationship with numbers that are allies and colleagues in providing
what you need to know to do your job or live your life successfully. For
nurses, this would be the ability to calculate dosing safely and accurately.
For my other life with the horses and goats on </span><a href="http://www.foxsongfarm.com/" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;" target="_blank">Fox Song Farm</a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">, it is the ability
to figure out how much hay I need to get through the winter and determine if my
barn has space enough to hold that number of bales. It is also figuring out if I
can find</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">the money in my skinny bank account to pay for it. By the way, the
magic hay number is 10 tons, and yes, full up to the top, we have just enough room
to store the equivalent </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">amount of small bales that make up 10 tons of breakfast
and dinner for our horses and goats (for 120 lb bales: 167 bales, rounded to
170 bales because I like round numbers). I'm still working on the bank account numbers.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Although I admire the mental athletics of mathematicians, I am
a lazy-pants math person and prefer playing in the shallow end of the pool,
yes, with popsicle sticks at the Arithmetic table. Numeracy—number sense—is how
I approach problems requiring calculation. And, instead of seeing numbers as
alien species with inscrutable habits, I now greet them as representatives of a
specific quantity of something tangible. Counters. Containers of the ‘thing’ I
am trying to calculate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A light-bulb moment I have witnessed in students is when
they recognize the simple truth that ‘1’ is made up of all the points on the
ruler from 0 to 1. ‘One’ becomes substance, not mere label. For in numeracy, we
are concerned with the amount of something very real and meaningful. If I can
reframe a person’s understanding of number from an abstract non-entity to the
thing being measured itself, that person’s math anxiety greatly diminishes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For example, I met with a student who was having difficulty
recognizing when a calculation in pharmacology (medication dosage) was incorrect.
The usual teachings about estimating an answer first and comparing this to the
solution, or double-checking her answer by using the ‘is this reasonable?’
question, or backwards solving the question was not working for her. Without
thinking, I said, “Okay, from the label know that you have 4000 mg in the bottle
total. Let’s say instead that it’s 4000 beans you have in </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">there. Given the drug
prescription you have been given, how many beans are you going to administer to
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This time, she was able to recognize that with her wrong answer,
she was going to be giving WAY too many beans! That student later soared
through her calculations </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">final, getting the required 100% of questions right in
record time. “It’s all about the beans,” she said to me. “When I begin to get anxious,
I ask myself, ‘how many beans!’”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Many of us with math-terror need a new way of visualizing
numbers. If thinking of beans helps, so be it. In Stanislas Dehaene’s book, </span><i style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The
Number Sense</i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">, he mentions that many</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> people often attribute a sense of personality,
or identity, to specific numbers, especially the integers. For example, many
people see a specific color when thinking about a specific number. Dehaene
cites studies demonstrating associations between numbers and colors: “most
people associate black and white with either 0 and 1, or 8and 9; yellow, red,
and blue with small numbers such as 2, 3, 4; and brown, purple, and gray with
larger numbers such as 6, 7, and 8” (Dehaene, loc 1646). What a rainbow an intricate
calculus problem would be! </span><br />
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shy fellow beside the flashier ‘5’ who wears a herringbone suit with a wide tie,
I don’t see colors when I work with numbers. I do, however, in solidarity with
many primary school children, see the shape of numbers as demonstrating a sense
of personality. For example, ‘8’ is clearly googly-eyes set sidewise, an
obvious snoop who is trying to be sneaky about it, and ‘0’ definitely looks like
the Kool-Aid man who similarly intrudes into most large numbers that are just
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I think I may include time in the course for students to air
their feelings about numbers. It will probably therapeutic for me, too. I might
have some unspoken animosity toward ‘O.’ On the other hand, I quite like ‘3,’
who is peaceable and always open to things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When it comes down to it, although math can be intimidating
to many, numeracy—numbers—are etched in the gray matter of our fingertips. They
are a part of how we order our daily lives, but more, they are intimately
connected with the way we think. We are, ultimately, bean counters in the
nicest possible way. We measure things: with our tools, our hands, our eyes. We
count on our fingers and on each other. We weigh broccoli in the grocery store as
well as the worth of a politician’s words. Number sense lies in uncovering the reason
behind our search for the representative set of numerals, reasoning out what we
need to know, and allowing our words and numbers to slide together. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I guess that is the starting point—as well as the final anticipated
outcome—of my little course. For students to uncover their own natural number
sense so they recognize what makes sense number-wise, and are thus safe, safe,
safe when calculating medication doses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Beans. Popsicles. Dice. The Kool-Aid man. Here’s to our collective
movement from math terrors to visualizing a rainbow of happy integers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to the droning of a teacher, seeing in her dreams sun-drenched beach days, or
snow-deep toboggan days, or lazy sleep-in mornings. We learn, from early on to
measure our work time with fun time; that the cycle of days includes periods where
fortitude means constrained effort toward goals that aren’t necessarily our own,
as well as cycles of days where our inner and outer beings are more aligned to the
whim and whisper of our own heart-minds. Summer vacation, Christmas holidays,
Spring break: don’t they still strike a feeling of bliss in you when you say
them? Each one like an island sanctuary beckoning to us during those long
school days when the effort of structured learning seemed interminable. They
functioned as milestones all along our 12-year journey. “The summer I first went
to camp and had a huge fight with my best friend.” “The spring break we went to
Disneyland.” “The Christmas we were snowed in and I broke up with my first boyfriend.”
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>School: our first community journey that
culminated 12 years later in that final milestone recorded by family photos of you in a gown
with a funny hat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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salary perhaps did not have the length and breadth of those school-year
vacations, but they did have a rhythm that marked work and rest, too. Coffee
breaks, lunch breaks, birthday celebrations, all helped to create a pattern demarking
the periods of time that belonged to another and that belonged to ourselves. Throughout
the year, springing up like jewels released only by time, stat holidays and
vacation days gleamed on our calendar. Although many of us greedily grasped
stat holidays to work and earn double-pay, and vacations days were meager, they
still stood as days that were different and distinct from the days making up the
weeks that marched on in uniform consistency. Milestones, perhaps smaller than
our school year events, rippled the surface on that stream of days giving us a
sense of cycle and a turning of seasons. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif">College-years had their own distinct pattern. Milestones
were not only winter and spring breaks and semester or year ends, rather they
were midterms and finals and summer jobs and internships and clinicals with
specific start and end dates. They were research projects tied into budget
funding that began with proposals that included deadlines. And, of course, there
was that final graduation week that culminated in more family photos of you in a
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif">Our first career jobs began the process, for many of us,
that eroded the healthy, refreshing cycle of milestones as cyclical seasons
signifying a beginning and an end. Career jobs demanded that sacrifices be made.
If our careers were in an office, coffee breaks and lunches were often taken at
desks while work went on with a minor interruption for chewing and swallowing. If
our careers were in retail or service industries, coffee breaks and lunches meant
quickly attending your own shopping or banking or dashing out to ferry kids. For
healthcare providers, breaks were skipped altogether on short-staffed shifts,
or became time to catch up on charting, collaborate quickly with colleagues, or,
on night shifts, to catch a few Zzz. And not in a relaxing way but a grim “Must
sleep as I only have 20 minutes” kind of </span><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif">desperation. </span><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"> </span><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif">During 12-hour nights that were, likely, about
to be stretched into 16-hour shifts, a 20-minute nap became a dead-serious task
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif">Career jobs, including self-employment, blur the landscape
of milestones and as a result these rarely become moments of pause, reflection,
change of pace or refreshment. Instead they are seen as tiny islands that can
be plundered for extra time to catch up on the many tasks that the river of
enterprise continues to demand. Vacations become stolen time that must, somehow,
be made up on your return. The frantic efforts to clear tasks away before
vacations, knowing the pile of work that will continue to grow when you are
away can make any plans for vacation a herculean effort. We say we do it for
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif">kids to experience the pause, refreshment, change of pace.
But we are exhausted. It is not unusual to witness eager rising stars turn into
cynics and energetic care givers burn out and exit their profession.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif">Milestones are important to well-being. Not simply those
event-moments of graduation, big birthdays and anniversaries and christenings.
Rather, the rhythm of events that break up our flow of work; that separates for
us time-that-belongs-to-others and time where our bodies, minds, hearts can listen,
align, become coherent again. Where purpose and personal mission can bubble up
once again to provide us with a lifeboat on the relentless river of industry
and career. Sometimes we need to stop; more often, we need to re-establish a synergy with nature and ourselves that follow seasonal change, beginnings and endings, fall deluge and spring run-off, times of surge and times of withdrawal. We need cycles with milestones that signal to us that the pause button is on its way as reliable as summer vacation was to us sitting in the February classroom in Grade three.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif">As many have said, Covid-19 has shown us many things. One
powerful moment was that we learned as a nation that it is possible to collectively
change our habits very quickly. We can pause as a people, as individuals, as families,
and when we do, we experience a rekindling of creative thinking and connection
that is tangible. We listen more: to ourselves, each other, the sounds of
nature. We empathize more; we innovate better. Covid-19 created—and continues
to create—a milestone moment in the 21<sup>st</sup> Century. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif">This is not to say that all things survive and become
stronger or more successful in a collective pause. Many things fall. Ways of
doing business, specific reaches of enterprise, modern methods of industry may
fold. Humanity is used to that. Any history text will demonstrate rises and falls of industry and ways of life. </span>In the span of a just a few weeks, for instance, we have seen the rise in delivery services, morphing of restaurant menus, distilleries changing production and gyms, therapists, and educators providing virtual connections.The New, or a return to traditional practices and cycles of doing life may surface
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in early spring during our stay at home directives was spectacular, causing my parish secretary to quip, “There’s going
to be a ton of zucchini being passed around to neighbors this summer!” Similarly, the artistic creativity
of musicians and visual artists has been stunning. The virtual choirs and orchestras have been heart-deep inspiring. Reading and music have returned to many homes across the nations that had forgotten the simple patterns of story and song. So did direct kindness
and checking in on neighbors. We learned as a nation to say, 'thank you,' to our essential service workers. Many of us actually witnessed more sunrises and sunsets than we have in years. I mean, literally took time to watch, truly saw </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif">Milestones are important for wellbeing. They put a period at
the end of an exhaustingly long sentence. They are the sunset of one time
period and the sunrise of another. A small seasonal shift in our routine. We
are born into a world of cycles and seasons and patterns that realign according
to the moon, stars, and magnetic poles. Our bodies wake and sleep and release
hormone in circadian rhythm. We respirate, breathe air in and out, circulate nutrients
and oxygen via our internal pump that prefers a <i>lub-dub</i> pattern we call normal sinus rhythm. We need to experience beginnings
and endings and cycles and patterns and seasonal shifts. It is in our DNA. We are
at our best in the events that stop us and spin us around. When we feel the coherence
of need and experience clarity of action. Sometimes it takes a disaster to
remind us of the power of clear intention and heroic action fueled by empowered
empathy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif">Take the gift of time
given to you by the bump-in-the-road pause. Allow the re-aligning of heart and mind;
listen for the bubbling of purpose and personal mission to percolate from your
inner core. You may find that a direction you have taken is no longer of importance,
or that a new understanding of direction induces a strengthening and
simplifying of your pathway. That river may not be quite as relentless as it appeared
before to you. Things will fall away, things will straighten and stand tall,
things will morph into new realities. Your core will be refined, and you will
be stronger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You feel them before you see the rising
swirl of flakes flooding sight with cold determination.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Swaying to a beat from a distant star,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I see a convoy of creatures, ear bent,
heart-tuned to rhythms shy of <i>malleus, incus, stapes</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Moving from silent stirrings of heart,
they lean toward sounds and sights yet unheard, unseen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Even the night breeze has dropped like a
stone.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Only the Child within hears the roar of Spirit-air
rising, readying to rush into fresh lungs;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Only the Child within hears the singing
of stars, and angels discharging like firecrackers into the atmosphere.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The bones and heart—those ancient
bedfellows of knowing—sense the shift long before the mind knows to surrender
to it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Body wisdom, old as Methuselah, rises and
runs to Light, where eternal spirit and resurrected body kiss.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There is glory in the aged landscape of a
handful of clay held at the beginning of human time. The prophets knew this and
so they sang their signs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Earth seasons know this: rumbling chants
of Creation and Christmas in the unfolding of leaves and bursting of berries,
the tumble of new lambs, and flutter of wise wings. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Son rises soft. We feel the rush of
Wind before we <i>feel</i> it. Know it in our heart-bones before mind clears
and turns in anticipation of it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Such love—a tidal wave of kindness,
peace, joy as ocean-deep as it is star-tall drowning discontent and dredging arteries
to new vistas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Spirit runs radiant, over-turning sense,
squabbles, and sanctimony. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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quintessential Christmas mob, race rampant over a startled town.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "dubai medium" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Stars
shine brighter on the coldest nights.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "dubai medium" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">As
if the harsh wind swollen with ice-shards, sharpens light,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "dubai medium" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Carving
edges and angles until starshine gleams diamond tough.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "dubai medium" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hard
times rub raw, wearing down fleshy growths.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "dubai medium" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Daily
irritants temper soft living and hone the heart,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "dubai medium" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Hammering
essential character-curves that rise and dip, a roadmap of truth, receiving and
reflecting Presence; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "dubai medium" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Non-essentials
chipping away and flowing like sand through the artist’s fingers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "dubai medium" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">We
run from pain, from any semblance of suffering, afraid of the brand it will
burn<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "dubai medium" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">On
our inner selves; we know we will be made different by one deep look at its
formidable face. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "dubai medium" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Perhaps,
instead, suffering is a birth of authenticity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "dubai medium" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">A
laser-like burning of dross by a clean, cold scalpel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "dubai medium" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Perhaps
suffering is a Michelangelo; an eternal eye finding the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "dubai medium" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Work
of art buried within our marble skin, freeing the frank and fearless soul to <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "dubai medium" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Stand
and deliver Joy, Love, Presence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "dubai medium" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Like
three candles bright, the Nativity in my Christmas snow globe houses<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1GdZrQlVFUCsoOlXfY7uCjZ5yEuNZUH9JiiDnXLkx2LVHBVEE9U9kJboIvW0nZZpGCigi4A5jSsTlhLKA35zbydj1kG6fVOBS3GE7YdJbcFc50sTTGAsCNRcexR1kknkXu2yPTINgstLh/s1600/SnowGlobe.tif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="771" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1GdZrQlVFUCsoOlXfY7uCjZ5yEuNZUH9JiiDnXLkx2LVHBVEE9U9kJboIvW0nZZpGCigi4A5jSsTlhLKA35zbydj1kG6fVOBS3GE7YdJbcFc50sTTGAsCNRcexR1kknkXu2yPTINgstLh/s200/SnowGlobe.tif" width="192" /></a><span style="font-family: "dubai medium" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Mary,
Joseph, and the Child.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "dubai medium" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Each
small statue seems eternally surprised by finding itself straw-deep in a cold stable,
eye-fodder for a donkey, a cud-chewing cow, and ruminating sheep.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "dubai medium" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Mary,
Joseph, and the Baby Jesus unified by space and time, each life trajectory merging
into utter stillness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "dubai medium" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Still</i>, not static; recall that fast-moving
spheres appear motionless to our eyes)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "dubai medium" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">The
Magnificat <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">yes:</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "dubai medium" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Yes</span></i><span style="font-family: "dubai medium" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">, glory and
time joining;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "dubai medium" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Yes</span></i><span style="font-family: "dubai medium" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">, body and spirit
merging;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "dubai medium" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">A
still-life surface hiding the workings of proton pathways, elemental orbits,
Spirit breath.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "dubai medium" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Wild
joy birthed in a moment: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">this</i> moment;
this eternal movement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "dubai medium" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Only
in this present moment is joy lived, breathed, gifted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "dubai medium" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">The
past brings only a reflective glow of it; the future only a hope of it;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "dubai medium" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Joy
springs forth in this moment, this breath, this eternal Presence of body, soul,
spirit aligned in eternal motion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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live in each moment—sorrow or not, suffering or not—soul-eyes wide and alert, is
riding the eternal current:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "dubai medium" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Fathomless
Presence in a star gleam; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "dubai medium" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Boundless
Love in a Baby;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "dubai medium" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Unfettered
Joy. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Hakalau meditation is a wonderful way to become present and grounded-in-the-moment.
The practice of Hakalau is straightforward: first you choose a fixed point of
focus, and then you slowly bring your awareness to your peripheral vision, while
continuing to hold your attention on the fixed spot. Finally, you allow your
focus to spread out to fully experience peripheral vision, still connecting to
the fixed spot, but now within the broadest of visions. Sounds simple, and it
is, but Hakalau medication can be powerful and profound.</div>
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Animals move between
fixed gaze and wide vision throughout their day. Basic survival demands an
ability to do this – a predator needs to <o:p></o:p></div>
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be sharply focused on prey … and a
prey animal must maintain a soft, broad focus that acts as an environmental
scan to pick up any movement of predators. As all animals need both types of
vision, they must become expert in moving between these foci, and in using all
their body to provide continual feedback. Herd animals—grazers and browsers—have
adapted beautiful ways to read their environment; in fact, ‘reading’ is a much
more organic process than reading a book! Animal ‘reading’ is much more mutual
and connected, not only to herd members, but to the environment itself. For
example, horses can pick up increased heart rate and blood pressure from meters
away and can pick up vibrations through the sensitive parts of their hooves,
too. Their large electro-magnetic cardiac field influences any creature within its
wide range. Horses pick up the ‘vibes’ of their herd mates almost instantly.<br />
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Chickens and bird flocks function in much the same way.
Chickens have focused gaze to see that tiny seed or the movement of a small <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>bug in the soil in front of them, but respond in milliseconds to a shadow casting over their area—it might just be a predator
hawk after a meal. The waft from the wing of one flock mate results in the
entire flock scattering. Animals and birds are truly present in their
environment.<br />
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Being able to move from a narrow
focused ‘predator’ gaze to a soft, broad focus of a herd animal is both a
necessary skill for life … and a great way to become centered in our
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<b>Tiger vision:</b> Pick a
fixed spot to look at, preferably above eye level, so that your field of vision
seems to bump up against your eyebrows, but the eyes are not so high so as to
cut off the field of vision. If you are outside, a spot on a tree trunk is
ideal. A bird nest or a knot in a fence post … whatever is in front of you …
pick it and focus your tiger eyes …<o:p></o:p></div>
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eyes … </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As you stare at this
spot, gently drop all non-essentials from your mind, giving your prefrontal
cortex the job to focus all of your attention on the spot<o:p></o:p></li>
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tiger eyes … </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Begin to melt your
tiger eyes. Envision your vision-focus softening, liquifying, melting out and
spreading to your left and to your right. Keep looking at the spot, but
become aware of the peripheral vision pooling to your right and to your left<o:p></o:p></li>
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tiger eyes … </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Continue melting
and allowing your vision to spread out right to left … but now allow it to
pool down and rise up, so that your peripheral vision has four directions:
left and right, and up and down … keep a looking at your spot, but more
and more fully expand outward and enjoy the power of the soft vision of
your peripheral gaze, broadening … widening … expanding your connection
with your environment</span><o:p></o:p></li>
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disengage your eyes from the spot and enjoy your horse eyes! </b><o:p></o:p></li>
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<b>This is a great
practice to do throughout your day … especially when you are not able to focus,
or are feeling very ‘in the box’ focused. Let the horses out …</b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #2f5496; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Star gazing</span></span></b></h2>
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<span style="color: #1f3864; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The summer sky is
languid and light,</span></b></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhmfg9wUKpmE5R5lATUaIh_fFEiiNQ3XP-RQA7ISmz3JKwVqiqmAvJQZS-oFv4EWDe12Lm9KNcaa6t3IdCnjmwEeJx6byOJ3qq57kBEbhmSOmfqo_0SdS8PAqCXXJPIrVE1HyJrsJj5B96/s1600/seastars.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6386021597538792396" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="color: #1f3864; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Boiling with stars and
satellites, planets and jets.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f3864; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Meteors and fireworks
tour the night like paramecium in a warm pond,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f3864; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Or flash in sudden
sparks as from a stoked campfire,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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in an indigo sky. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f3864; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">December nights are
different; the sun cold and cloaked by five. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f3864; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Winter stars reach
long fingers like narrow spears from there to here,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6386021597538792396" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="color: #1f3864; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Brittle and gleaming:
ice-ladders through the deep dusk of space.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f3864; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">December stars hold hard
history and an arctic earth mirrors back their lore--<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f3864; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Written in frost and
ice and shimmering rain dropping like icicles, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f3864; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sending nano-sized
units of dazzling light-arrows into slow pupils.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f3864; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f3864; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">December days are
flagrant with earth-bound stars, too.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f3864; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Bare branches crossed
and twisted reveal organic carvings of the five-pointed stars we drew as
children.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f3864; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Flocks sweep overhead,
murmurs of evolving shapes: round and robust, sudden star shapes flickering and
sliding between the tops of trees.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f3864; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Rocks, rain-clean,
gleam stellar fissures, while mica and quartz wink back the winter sun.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f3864; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Stars are all around
and we follow them, drawn to their shape and shine. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f3864; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We reach for stars as
children, tracing their shape with our finger—hands high in the air or eyes
bent, following a cracked line in a stone, a row of tracks crossing the good
earth, a bedewed spider web, a frost-edged stand of dying thistle.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f3864; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is our child-voice
rising from that deeper place where wise men watched for signs and recognized heavenly
messages.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f3864; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Those wise men
following the Bethlehem star, held tight the wonder within like a touch stone,
saw the nature-sign sketched on high and journeyed … <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f3864; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Reaching for the earth-edge
of those silver-gold light threads tumbling from the night sky, weaving a
carpet of light before them, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f3864; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The language of earth
and heaven understood by each clay-heart breathed into <i>Image dei</i>,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f3864; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Moving in synchronic rhythm
with star fire, earth-sign, well-deep joy, and Spirit-wind … <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f3864; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Crossing the earth keel-deep
on camel-ships, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f3864; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sailing under desert
wind through silent night, child heart calling to Child Heart. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f3864; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Is it any wonder that
the animals knew first? Why they are so deeply woven into the Nativity? <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f3864; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There is for them no self-conscious
social persona, no conflict with earth-heart and soul-core, no theological
wrestling with words at least a stone’s throw away from this Present Moment.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f3864; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Blessed are those who
live in the Present Moment, for there the Eternal <i>is</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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feel <i>this</i> through your bones, this
star-stirring Wind-swept night, holy laughter bubbling and rushing like joyful
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Our world scrabbles through abundance to find a scrap<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Buried by the wealth at our feet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">We hold a singular gaze for the thing that is scarce,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Yet long for abundance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">I sit surrounded by good feeling, good friends, a wealth of
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Yet, am fascinated by the trinket of tin echoes,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"> of <i>want</i> thinly sounding through such
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">The peculiarity of the shadow of a problem thrown against a
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">In that moment we can choose to see the hungry hordes that
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Or the baskets of loaves and fishes lovingly split, shared,
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Abundance is all-encompassing;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">We walk through it with waders, hip high;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">seemingly unaware of blessings rained down, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">sunned through, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">wind blown riches riding our lungs, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">filling hearts and minds with curious, unending compassion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">It is our heart that flows with abundance;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Full to the brim with possibility, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Beating with a wealth of intent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Beneath our ribs rides a river of rhythm <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">One third of the way through the snow storm ... while we were still enamoured by the 'pretty' snow ...</span></td></tr>
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jemmagirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09138365720256111900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6386021597538792396.post-85387550162627493392016-12-16T19:03:00.001-08:002016-12-18T18:57:00.420-08:00Christmas, 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">An earnest journey of hard-knock-life, the kind of life that
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Under-published, under-celebrated, unappreciated by the Big
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Is a set of small connecting steps, shared sorrows and joys and
the patting of dogs along the way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This time-journey of earning a living and ageing is at least
as grueling a journey as trekking the Himalayas, and just as precarious in its
purpose and passion-wrenching sand storms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yet these earnest day by day lives seem so easily
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Each small footprint, converging with other small steps,
filled in and covered over, as society prepares a pristine passageway fit for
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stories shattering reputations and carefully built lives;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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where deep passion and purpose can flourish in the humble connections of family
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yet it is Advent, and we are called to Bethlehem, where incongruence
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Shepherds hunkered by the herd hearing angels; a virgin
birthing; Christ choosing the hay and harmony of animals over a golden
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take up a journey to reach for a star? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As wise ones? Fools on a fool’s errand? Mediocre scholars
with limited insight and biased peer review? Or simply an allegory of an
impossible reach for Messiah?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Me? I close my eyes against the grit of sand, feel the chill
night wind cut my face, my stiffening joints surrounding the warm girth of my
steed. I smell the pungent odor of animal and earth crushed by hooves and
resilient as love. I see thin light cutting through the inky night, forming a
path discernible only to connected heart-mind-spirit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Lab and Diagnostics</i></b></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sitting on those thick stretched-vinyl chairs-- <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The ones that countless wipes of antiseptic can’t fade--<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Holding numbered paper slips, we waited;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and felt a small echo of winning when our number projected overhead.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We won a new place of waiting:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A tiny cubicle with a thin curtain;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A place to shed clothes, don a gown and for some of us a
pair of socks designed by Dr. Suess.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A place to flip that one magazine … and wait.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But, now no longer just a number,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In this inner sanctum of waiting we heard our name called. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And we met the machine;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Wizard behind the curtain in this weird land of OZ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There is no fooling that wizard;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">No revisionist medical history, no stretching blood sugar scores
and loose conversational supposes, ‘My doctor thought it looked fine …’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Merciless, penetrating vision.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But single vision none-the-less. For even the giants among
the machine folk—the CT and MRI –see only the yes-no of physical stuff; a hard
shadow frozen in time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The winds of energy, hope, grief and joy stirring these
molecules of matter are invisible to machine-eyes, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yet we are aware of how they blow, settling in the soul of
our center-heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sometimes these winds whip with chaotic frenzy and scatter
our bones into a rattling, painful frenzy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sometimes zephyrs of summer or a fragrant fall blow bones to
dance in gratitude, appreciation for the gentle sunshine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But this wizard, unlike the gentle soul in Oz with a bag of
clock-hearts and honorary degrees, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Peers past meaning, past purpose, past soul into the grit of
molecules;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A sand sculpture oblivious to the tide of energy surrounding
it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But we are more than the etching of our bones;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">More than the lace of hydrogen formed in an ice-tide
preserved in a digital file.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The scan of a larynx never shows the singing voice darting
like a hummingbird to the nectar of the joyful soul.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The real wizard behind the curtain is the person dressed in
scrubs who sees past the cornea of the patient in the gown;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Who connects, soul-to-soul, stirring winds of humanity, laughter,
compassion;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Who sees in the dark shadows of an ultrasound, not a
menopausal uterus, but the sacred space of Creation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is the deeper magic in the room of the machine. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our heart recognizes and rejoices,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And our minds, dressed in thanksgiving, embrace the
kindness of strangers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sitting on those thick stretched-vinyl chairs-- <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The ones that countless wipes of antiseptic can’t fade--<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Holding numbered paper slips, we waited;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and felt a small echo of winning when our number projected overhead.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We won a new place of waiting:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A tiny cubicle with a thin curtain;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A place to shed clothes, don a gown and for some of us a
pair of socks designed by Dr. Suess.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A place to flip that one magazine … and wait.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But, now no longer just a number,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In this inner sanctum of waiting we heard our name called. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And we met the machine;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Wizard behind the curtain in this weird land of OZ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There is no fooling that wizard;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">No revisionist medical history, no stretching blood sugar scores
and loose conversational supposes, ‘My doctor thought it looked fine …’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Merciless, penetrating vision.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But single vision none-the-less. For even the giants among
the machine folk—the CT and MRI –see only the yes-no of physical stuff; a hard
shadow frozen in time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The winds of energy, hope, grief and joy stirring these
molecules of matter are invisible to machine-eyes, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yet we are aware of how they blow, settling in the soul of
our center-heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sometimes these winds whip with chaotic frenzy and scatter
our bones into a rattling, painful frenzy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sometimes zephyrs of summer or a fragrant fall blow bones to
dance in gratitude, appreciation for the gentle sunshine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But this wizard, unlike the gentle soul in Oz with a bag of
clock-hearts and honorary degrees, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Peers past meaning, past purpose, past soul into the grit of
molecules;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A sand sculpture oblivious to the tide of energy surrounding
it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But we are more than the etching of our bones;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">More than the lace of hydrogen formed in an ice-tide
preserved in a digital file.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The scan of a larynx never shows the singing voice darting
like a hummingbird to the nectar of the joyful soul.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The real wizard behind the curtain is the person dressed in
scrubs who sees past the cornea of the patient in the gown;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Who connects, soul-to-soul, stirring winds of humanity, laughter,
compassion;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Who sees in the dark shadows of an ultrasound, not a
menopausal uterus, but the sacred space of Creation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is the deeper magic in the room of the machine. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our heart recognizes and rejoices,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And our minds, dressed in thanksgiving, embrace the
kindness of strangers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Maze</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“I don’t know where I am,” she
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I turn and see an iron-haired
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">White coat pauses, begins to open
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Before he speaks, I hear the hum in
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In my mind I see thought bubbles
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dementia
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And, opening like clapboards under
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Polypharmacy,
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Blinks behind the hair in her eyes,
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That way is reception. It’s a maze,
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Thank you,” says the warrior. “What
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">White coat closes his mouth and
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Word bubbles popping around him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have been there—both the white
coat clinician and the older adult in the double gown.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From two sides of a precipice they
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Worlds apart? Words apart?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For now I see that the ravine is
much smaller than it seemed to be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The hospital without and within (the
mind) is a maze—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Full of twists and turns, sharp corners
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are no stars, no Sun, no
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And labels are oh-so-useful in
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But signposts and compadres on the
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They bring you <i>home.</i></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #538135; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Well! The
‘weather outside is frightful,’ but it is not exactly ‘beginning to look a lot
like Christmas,’ at least in terms of frosted evergreen trees and snowflakes …
No, instead we are having a true Pacific coastal Christmas: ‘let it rain, let
it rain, let it rain!’</span></div>
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<span style="color: #538135; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">But, inside it
is beginning to look like Christmas … I’m taking a break from wrapping presents and writing this greeting to you … </span></div>
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<span style="color: #538135; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">We wanted to
thank you for your kindness, support, prayers, and the long-suffering friendship
that you’ve shared with us, especially in the past year. Two-OH!-Fifteen has
been quite the year for Vincent! As you know, winter into spring, Vincent went
from immobility due to an injury, to a below-knee amputation, to living days as
the bionic man and evenings ‘rollin, ’rollin,’ rollin’ … it’s a difficult road
to adjust to the far-from-perfect technology of prosthetics. There are many,
many frustrating moments and painful steps along the way. It takes courage,
patience, and initiative to continue on that road, and we thank you again for
your ongoing supportive friendship and keeping us in heart and mind. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #538135; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Our animal
kids, Puck, Arael, Janna, Maggie, and Gabriel, were such a blessing to me while
Vincent was in the hospital, and continue to encourage Vincent to increase his
mobility … and daily they make us laugh! Their cheerful steadfastness,
persistent good will, and present-moment engagement are a huge gift to us.
Toward the end of the summer, our herd grew by one: Tivio, a Quarter horse
retiring from Timberline Ranch, joined Puck and Arael, rounding out our little
herd nicely. We are blessed, and are grateful for the gifts we have been
given—including your friendship.</span></div>
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you and yours during this Holy Season,</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #538135; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Word</span></b></h3>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #538135; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">It’s all in a
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<span style="color: #538135; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">It’s all in our
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<span style="color: #538135; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Words and
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<span style="color: #538135; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The “dwarves
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<span style="color: #538135; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">It’s all in a
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #538135; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">What if we
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<span style="color: #538135; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">And lifted fathom-deep ocean currents to salt the
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #538135; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">What if wisdom
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<span style="color: #538135; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Clearing a clinging fog of fear,</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #538135; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">What if faith
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<span style="color: #538135; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The dark stretching like an inky balloon,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #538135; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Thinning, weakening, straining to
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<span style="color: #538135; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Bursting in a myriad of stars.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #538135; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Would we then
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<span style="color: #538135; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The wild
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<span style="color: #538135; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Drink in the
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #538135; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The
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<span style="color: #538135; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">It is in the
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<span style="color: #538135; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">It is in the
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<span style="color: #538135; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">The Child, wail
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</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #538135; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">But blind
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #538135; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Three winds of
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<i><b><span style="color: #538135; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">FSR</span></b></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> December night </i></span></div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The raw
beauty of winter blows bigger than Disney ice queens and <em><span style="font-style: normal;">sentient</span></em>
snow men.</span></div>
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</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Winter’s
craft is as a carver,</span></div>
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</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Shaving fine
flakes of ice from spinning clouds, etchings in white.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I see the
small mud whirlpools stirred by the wind of my boots, eddies of sleet, clay,
and sodden hay.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Earthy
pom-poms dangle from the mane of my mare. Eyes bright with winter, she buries
her muzzle into the palm of my hand, tastes a memory of summer in an apple
slice. </span></div>
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</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There is
beauty in the slash and whip of willow branches, golden-brown laces tightening the
darkening sky. </span></div>
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</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The pines and
cedars rear up in the wind, shedding cones and needles in a perfumed mist.</span></div>
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</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The trail of horses’
hoof prints merge; amorphous hollows filling with</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Browns, greys
and sullen gold-green, all blending in a winter soup seasoned with cedar-red
bark bits.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Yes, there is
beauty; </span></div>
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</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Fresh
sculptures that last for seconds, minutes, hours, depending on the carver’s
caprice.</span></div>
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</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There are
sudden gifts in the blurring, rain-drenched moments, too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The ruddy
glow on the horizon lingering long after the thunderheads have taken the apex,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A silver slit
of a moon briefly singing through clouds.</span></div>
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</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The layers of
winter are more varied than even my bulky wear,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I see the
brittle beauty of a bush thrown by frost-hard wind, cast into shape, then melting,
merging into the chill fog.</span></div>
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</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I hear the crying
call of the coyote that tracks the back field, answered by an unseen forest of relatives,</span></div>
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</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The trill of a
wren cuts the cracking wind, and the soft sudden patter of movement in the
shrubs defies the stark lines of a frozen landscape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Even while
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I feel the
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You are like that, aren’t you?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">That laser
Christ-star drilling through eons of dark days;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A brilliant beam
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Your Wind
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I see behind
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Laser
Christ-light piercing fogged brain matter;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Baby
brightness on a December night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The sheer
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I see
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Even the
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">For travelers
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The sun
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">there is:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the placing of foot before foot, eyes
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the kinesthetic of each arm swinging
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the restless scanning of a bewildering
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and the unfamiliar greeting of strangers,
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Journey</i> is to live in the alien present
in a relentless search for home.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">My missal is
crisp with the newness of December; the Advent journey has begun again.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I enter the foreign
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Shepherds
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Deprived of
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">seeing with
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Their
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">instead it
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Journey</i> is to live in Presence, a quiet
center in a relentless search for home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Many blessings on your Christmas journey and throughout the New Year!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">from left to right on the carpet back row: Maggie Muggins, Gabe, Janna Banana, the Lovely Ladies (represented by Emma in the front row), one unamed honeybee (on the Nativity stable), and <i>Puck!</i> (looking in the window) ... </span></div>
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jemmagirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09138365720256111900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6386021597538792396.post-71184357014077694882012-11-07T14:13:00.001-08:002012-11-07T14:14:01.736-08:00Choosing between 'good' and 'good' ...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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large groups of people were walking along with him, Jesus turned and told them,
“Anyone who comes to me but refuses to let go of father, mother, spouse,
children, brothers, sisters—yes, even one’s own self!—can’t be my disciple.
Anyone who won’t shoulder his own cross and follow behind me can’t be my
disciple.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Is there anyone here who, planning to build a
new house, doesn’t first sit down and figure the cost so you’ll know if you can
complete it? If you only get the foundation laid and then run out of money,
you’re going to look pretty foolish. Everyone passing by will poke fun at you:
‘He started something he couldn’t finish.’</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Or can you imagine a king going into battle
against another king without first deciding whether it is possible with his ten
thousand troops to face the twenty thousand troops of the other? And if he
decides he can’t, won’t he send an emissary and work out a truce?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></sup></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Simply put, if you’re not willing to take
what is dearest to you, whether plans or people, and kiss it good-bye, you
can’t be my disciple.</span></i></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkM0hyB4gNA07-xj-7IwcwMEcMGF3UA4CvbcFBRK5-phxE-eGVTN37GyX59EwvrcVtyWeO335CBpZhLeIFMeFKs6lFzdGqrs6eWvR9qnAWSrI0XkFizdvcAkeo2YkrcbMYnD2VZYdxV__9/s1600/stormy+beach.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkM0hyB4gNA07-xj-7IwcwMEcMGF3UA4CvbcFBRK5-phxE-eGVTN37GyX59EwvrcVtyWeO335CBpZhLeIFMeFKs6lFzdGqrs6eWvR9qnAWSrI0XkFizdvcAkeo2YkrcbMYnD2VZYdxV__9/s320/stormy+beach.jpg" width="213" /></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Wow … I always get a bit of a chill/shiver when I read this
passage from scripture. There is nothing of the warm, fuzzy ‘one set of
footsteps in the sand’ vibe here! The bluntness is rather refreshing, however—kind
of like the bit of a cold lemonade on a sultry summer day. Because, isn’t that
our reality? At least right now? (No, I’m not talking about the lemonade and
the summer weather!) Midterm crunch and the gear up to the final stretch of the
term is not a warm and fuzzy place to be … it is real, real, real! Are you
right now wondering if you are going to be one of those who didn’t ‘count the
cost’ of becoming a university student, or being a nurse? Who started strong
with great plans but didn’t calculate how much time and work it would take to
follow through to the goal—whether that is nursing school graduation, your MSN,
or the grueling process of establishing a nursing career ‘out there’?</span></div>
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up some things that we’ve treasured in the past, we can’t take hold of new
treasure. When our hands are full, we simply can’t grasp anything more. Physically,
socially, relationally, intellectually, even spiritually, we have to put
something down before we can take up something new. Our habits, friendships, schedules,
activities, lifestyle patterns, all need to be dissected, analyzed, and weighed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I think Jesus is suggesting that the choices we are having to make can cut deep—so deep
that family are even thrown rather violently into the scrutiny. For most of us,
the sacrifices we are called to make are not about good and evil—those are more
often clear and straightforward. The more difficult sacrifices for us to see
are when we need to choose between two or more <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">good</i> things. That is why achieving balance in life is such a
difficult thing to actualize. There is a time and season for everything,
Solomon reminds us, and I think that holding the teaching of Jesus alongside
the observation of Solomon helps bring us into perspective about sacrifice and
accomplishment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Right now, in this space and time, you and I are being asked
to learn, live, and work on this journey we call fall term, 2012. It is taking
a toll; it is exacting a sacrifice of you, your friends and family. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">But it is only for a time.</i> Be
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Oh, and that warm, fuzzy, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">footsteps in the sand</i> thing … it’s only when the journey’s done
that we get to see the single set of tracks beside the deep water. You are NOT
alone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I love </span></span><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The Mission</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> because it allows me to read scripture with fresh eyes. Talk about helping bury my assumptions about what is good and right! The following is a brief encouragement I sent to my nursing students who are in the midst of midterms ... remember that crazy time of the semester?! I thought that I could turn this onto myself and my own experience as a nurse and educator ...</span></span></span></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">John 12:24-28 (from The Mission)</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Listen carefully: </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Unless a grain of wheat is
buried in the ground, dead to the world, it is never any more than a grain of
wheat. But if it is buried, it sprouts and reproduces itself many times over.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the same way, anyone who holds on to life <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">just as it is</b> destroys that life. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But if you let it go, reckless
in your love, you’ll have it forever, real and eternal.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“If any of you wants to serve
me, then follow me. Then you’ll be where I am, ready to serve at a moment’s notice.
The Father will honor and reward anyone who serves me.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Right now I am storm-tossed.
And what am I going to say? ‘Father, get me out of this’? </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No, this is why I came in the
first place. I’ll say, ‘Father, put your glory on display.’”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I always think of the
caterpillar/cocoon/butterfly parallel to the seed/ground/crop analogy of this
passage. I think that’s the obvious parallel. But, there is also a nursing
parallel that is maybe a little less obvious (at least to non-nurses!). So let
me try to do a bit of scriptural re-writing here:</span></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Unless a nurse lets go of his/her assumptions about people
and healthcare knowledge that is what they remain: </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">misunderstandings and jaded expectations of ‘soothing
fevered brows.’ The barren field that follows is called, ‘Burn Out’ …</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But, the proper burial of assumptions, letting them fall to
the ground and be buried by pages of CEU readings, days of encountering new
thoughts in e-zines and workshops, and hours of peer and expert mentorship with
nurses experiencing encounters with people who are in need of nursing care with
fresh eyes, grows such a rich understanding of nursing and justice for people. </span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Such a nurse will be raised to change the world by allowing
all to see glimpses of the eternal in moments of encounter. These nurses will
be meticulous in knowledgeable practice and reckless in engaged compassion.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Right now you may feel sucked into a whirlwind of staff
needs and political worksites, so what are you going to say? “Creator God, get
me outa here?!” No, you’ll realize that this is why you came to be a nurse: to
authentically care, your assumptions must be ‘killed’ so that you’ll learn how
to practice nursing on any battleground … Instead, you’ll say, “Creator God,
let your glory transform me so that I can help my patients and my colleagues be
transformed!”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thanks for letting me for a few
minutes into your whirlwind ... <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">be encouraged in your nursing and in your world!</i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Luke
11:9-12 (from The Message)</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><sup><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></sup></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Here’s
what I’m saying:</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ask and you’ll get;<br />
Seek and you’ll find;<br />
Knock and the door will open.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Don’t bargain with God. Be direct.
Ask for what you need. This is not a cat-and-mouse, hide-and-seek game we’re
in. If your little boy asks for a serving of fish, do you scare him with a live
snake on his plate? If your little girl asks for an egg, do you trick her with
a spider? As bad as you are, you wouldn’t think of such a thing—you’re at least
decent to your own children. And don’t you think the Father who conceived you
in love will give the Holy Spirit when you ask him?”</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I must admit—I am rather conflicted over this passage and others
like it. It seems to say that we can get anything we need just by asking,
seeking, and assertively knocking on doors. It seems to say that God favors
those who help themselves, to paraphrase an old saying. I am conflicted because
my experience tells me life’s not that simple. There are many, many people I’ve
known who sincerely asked for good things but often got stones. And there are
many people who dine on caviar who are not at all appreciative and see their
daily blessings as entitlement rather than gifts. How is that fair, or of God?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">So I’ve been thinking about this passage for hours, even days,
now. And here is my <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a-ha!</i> moment: I
don’t think this scripture is about asking for our finances to mysteriously improve,
my excess weight to drop like scales off a lizard, protection against bad
events, or to get that dream job, super-human health, or handsome husband. I
don’t even think it is to get to be a better nurse, person, or ‘Christian’. I
think it’s all about asking, seeking, knocking on doors, and not taking no for
an answer in an all-out, no holds barred passionate drive to meet God. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Blaise Pascal said that there is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart
of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing. All good things do
follow our relentless search for God, for we will always find our Creator and
our Redeemer. The God-shaped vacuum in the heart means that even when we cram
the good things we receive in life into it, the vacuum is not filled—and eventually
we become jaded and restless. The opposite happens when we seek passionately
after God—even ‘bad’ things are redeemed and we perceive meaning and purpose is
at work, even if we cannot immediately see it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Encouragement for this week and the next: ask after God and seek
Christ in the face of strangers, patients, friends, professors (</span>:-)<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">) and colleagues. Don’t take ‘no’ for
an answer—knock on the door of initiative and commit to presence and relationship
even when lives crossing your path today seem random. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Blessings on your week!</span></span></div>
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jemmagirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09138365720256111900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6386021597538792396.post-38454220232006954092012-09-12T09:26:00.003-07:002012-09-12T09:26:44.434-07:00Nurse-attitudes!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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From <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Message</i>,
Luke 6:</div>
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<span class="text"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Everyone was
trying to touch him—so much energy surging from him, so many people healed!
Then Jesus spoke:</span></i></span></div>
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<span class="text"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">You’re
blessed when you’ve lost it all.</span></i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
<span class="text">God’s kingdom is there for the finding.</span></span></i></div>
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<span class="text">You’re blessed when you’re ravenously hungry.</span><br />
<span class="text">Then you’re ready for the Messianic meal.</span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span class="text"> </span><br />
<span class="text">You’re blessed when the tears flow freely.</span><br />
<span class="text">Joy comes with the morning.</span></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span class="text"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">But it’s
trouble ahead if you think you have it made.</span></i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
<span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">What
you have is all you’ll ever get.</span></span></i></div>
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<span id="en-MSG-10763"><span class="text"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">And
it’s trouble ahead if you’re satisfied with yourself.</span></i></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
<span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Your
</span></span></i><span class="text"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">SELF</span></b></span><span class="text"><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></i></span><span class="text"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">will not satisfy you for long.</span></i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
<span class="text">And it’s trouble ahead if you think life’s all fun and games.</span><br />
<span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">There’s
suffering to be met, and you’re going to meet it.</span></span></i></div>
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<span id="en-MSG-10764"><span class="text"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">There’s
trouble ahead when you live only for the approval of others, saying what
flatters them, doing what indulges them. Popularity contests are not truth
contests—look how many scoundrel preachers were approved by your ancestors!
Your task is to be true, not popular.</span></i></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></i></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Message</i>
because it shakes free some of my preconceptions of scriptures that I’ve read
for years. What I take away from this version of the Beatitudes is a steely
determination to look life straight in the eye—recognizing that sorrow and
longing are a part of life. BUT, that sorrow and longing create the amazing opportunity
to experience joy and be filled from the heart up!</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Well, the practice of nursing, like
life … [insert grin here!] … </span></div>
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<span class="text"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oh Nurse, you
are blessed when you’re lost in the anatomy wondering where to place that Foley
catheter.</span></i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
<span class="text">An expert colleague and a multitude of anatomy apps are
there for the finding.</span></span></i></div>
<div class="line">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span class="text"> </span><br />
<span class="text">You’re blessed when you’re faced with a complex,
hard-to-get-along-with participant.</span><br />
<span class="text">Then you’re ready to learn to listen.</span></span></i></div>
<div class="line">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span class="text"> </span><br />
<span class="text">You’re blessed when the tears flow freely in the middle of a
long night shift.</span><br />
<span class="text">Joy comes the morning at shift change.</span></span></i></div>
<div class="line">
<br /></div>
<div class="line">
<span class="text"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">But it’s
trouble ahead if you think you know it all.</span></i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
<span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">What
you know <u>now</u> is all you’ll ever attain.</span></span></i></div>
<div class="line">
<br /></div>
<div class="line">
<span id="en-MSG-10763"><span class="text"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">And
it’s trouble ahead if you’re satisfied that you’re a super nurse without need
of a team.</span></i></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
<span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Your
</span></span></i><span class="text"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">SELF</span></b></span><span class="text"><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></i></span><span class="text"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">will not satisfy patients for long.</span></i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></i></div>
<div class="line">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
<span class="text">And it’s trouble ahead if you think management and delegation
is all romance and drama.</span><br />
<span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">There’s
still BM to be managed, even if it's not the type you used to see
(frequently!).</span></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="top-1">
<span id="en-MSG-10764"><span class="text"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nurses
who perform only to impress others, and practice favor to ‘nice’ patients and
administrators, lose heart. Popularity contests are not truth contests—your
task is veracity, fidelity, justice and true equity, which often is not popular.</span></i></span></span></div>
</blockquote>
<div class="top-1">
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">So,
I encourage us, in whatever work we do as nurses and practitioners, not to run and hide from the suffering, the longing, the
roughness of life! It is in the trenches that we all pray and it is in the storm
that we see Christ walking toward us … we are called to truth, justice, and
faithfulness. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Blessings
on the roughness of your mid-week!</span></div>
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