People Get Ready

What is Peace? What does it look like? What are its images? Have we ever known peace? What is the difference between one's individual practice of peace and world peace? Would anyone not want peace? Some say we'll never have sustained peace, but who would reject making peace if understood personally as a practice, accessible and as common …

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The Soul of the World

The Soul of the World is the second part of James Hillman's two-part book, The Thought of the Heart and The Soul of the World, in which he sees a world suffering a breakdown in much the same way as individuals suffer. A world ensouled, a psychic reality, in which we imagine with our hearts, connecting each …

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First Grade

Because we live on opposite coasts, the time I spend with my family is precious. Perhaps as we get older and realize how quickly time is moving and how mistakes we've made stole some of that time away, it's even more desirable to be around those who share our past, helping to bring into focus …

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A Hard Day’s Night

Busy weekend here. Spent Saturday night at the coast where my husband and I enjoyed a great hike up to Cascade Head, just a little bit north of Lincoln City, on the Oregon coast. Later that night we went to Chinook Wind Casino and saw the Fab Four, a Beatles tribute band, who played two …

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For A Dancer

One of the most beautiful, yet saddest songs about death that I have ever heard is Jackson Browne's For a Dancer. Maybe you've heard it? In my teens, friends and I loved JB's album, "Late for the Sky," in which the studio version of For a Dancer can be found on. My friend Regina, who …

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