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Radical Generosity
I woke up this morning, and the same old band was playing (the really loud obnoxious one that has songs about all of my failures). My husband’s off from work because it’s Memorial Day, but I hadn’t...
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Everything Flows
{This is a drawing I made a while ago that seemed particularly perfect for this post. It’s called “Like a River”} If there’s one thing that’s true in life, it is that everything changes. Everything...
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What You Really Want
What you really want is not the big-time job not the overflowing bank account not the perfect and loving partner, not even the trip to Paris. What you really want is to wake up every day and feel like...
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My Stomping Ground
I’ve broken out my old Holga camera these days and have been wandering around in the wild beautiful places near where I live. I took my first roll of film right in my backyard, quite literally—these...
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Walking in the Mountains
This summer, I’ve been out walking in the mountains . . . It’s about an hour’s drive to trailheads, and then we go out walking, and walking, up higher and higher, until there is nothing but rock and...
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Love Does That
Earlier this week I got talking to one of my coworkers about poetry, and she passed along to me this poem below. Reading it again this morning it occurred to me that all my life so far (except perhaps...
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The One Practice
I consume a lot of information about how to live a better/happier/calmer/more fulfilling life. I read books, listen to podcasts, read blogs, watch interviews, read magazines, and watch videos about...
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Giving Thanks for Another Year of Wild Life
Hello! Hello! It’s been a while since I last posted! Over two months, which goes down in my record book as the longest I’ve ever been away from this blog since I started it back some years ago. I’ve...
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Life is Messy
Every day when I wake up, I hope for a day filled with light. And every day I go to sleep looking back on a day that was really a mixed bag. My days are filled with Everything—one minute I’m sitting...
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Forget Hard Work : : Play is the Light
The past few days I’ve been struggling with myself about my creative work. I’ve been working on some writing for a while now, and I’ve reached an impasse—I can’t see how to make it right, make it...
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Sky Poems : : An Introduction
Hello! Hello! It’s been a long while since I’ve written here! I’ve been taking some time to be quiet and think about things. While I’ve been away though, I’ve been doing some writing. Little poems...
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Sky Poems : : How to Find Peace
How to Find Peace You don’t need a key. You don’t need a lover. You don’t need any money. One day you will just be walking down the street, and then: sun on your face. Nothing to see or hear or...
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Sky Poems : : What To Do with Your Life
What To Do with Your Life Be a conductor of electricity. Stand around and wait for the zap. Listen as hard as you can to quiet. Stand as tall as you can in the storm. Maybe dance a little. Maybe...
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Sky Poems : : What Flows
What Flows Whatever you were, whoever you have been, let it go floating down the river. Life comes rolling like so much water, every moment a new drop. So many drops, so many chances to be whatever...
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Sky Poems : : All You Need
All You Need When you think there is nothing, when you see only wasting darkness, when you hear only ghosts, imagine a match flickering in the corner. This is all you need to kindle the whole...
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Sky Poems : : Whatever You are Holding Tightly
Whatever You are Holding Tightly Whatever you are trying to protect yourself against, whatever you are trying to hold tightly like the reins of a wild horse, open to it like a field. Let it gallop...
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Sky Poems : : Open Wider
Open Wider When you are opened by kindness or a wound, open wider. Invite all that comes to stir you, like the sky invites the wind and rejoices with howling. See all Sky Poems here : : Read a...
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Sky Poems : : Deeper Than Any Thing
Deeper Than Any Thing Like the ocean to a grain of sand, the unknown is infinite. Deeper than any thing, wider than any one. Stand on the shore. Watch it open to every horizon. Jump in. Trust that...
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In the Wilds : : Hiking on the John Muir Trail
Hello! Hello! I hope you’re having a fine and beautiful August so far! Last week I returned from a big adventure—my husband and I went on a 10-day backpacking trip in the southern Sierra Nevada (in...
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Sky Poems : : Wind
Wind When the wind roars up and jostles everything in its path, even you, let it. See all Sky Poems here : : Read a short intro to Sky Poems.
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