Have you ever considered the identities you have created for yourself? ‘The Good Son’, ‘The Doting Father’, ‘The Loving Mother’, ‘The Supporting Wife’, ‘The Rescuing Hero’ or the ‘Stupid Clown’. You get the idea, there are hundreds of these mythic, archetypal thought forms, (masks) out there. Which ones are imprisoning you? How many different manifestations […]
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False Dichotomy – The suggestion that two things are mutually exclusive, “you are either with us or against us” suggests that there are only two types of people: those who think and act identically and those who are enemies. After the mass shooting events last weekend in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, I started
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I’ve been pondering a bike ride to Mount Sunflower (the highest point in Kansas), for quite awhile but the conditions have not been right or I lacked ambition, until a couple days ago. I was down at the local pub on Friday night having dinner and a few beers with Vickie. A younger friend of
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Humans love to build fences and walls. We make everything “Us vs. Them”; Religion, Gender, Nationality, Politics, Race, Age, even Sports Teams. It must be part of our early training, our indoctrination, a toxic belief that takes up residence and never leaves. It is understandable I suppose, as evolution has historically occurred in small groups,
An article for the local newspaper. Once a person has met their biological needs and they feel safe and secure, their next most important requirement is a feeling of community and belonging. Community is a vital component in the quality of life equation. We need to support our local economy if we want to maintain
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To grow and evolve you need to push the edge of the envelope, stretch your limits and challenge your personal belief system. As you evolve, stretch, and grow, it creates stress. Be patient and attentive. Determine the best spot to apply pressure, which relieves the stress. Often the action that is required is letting go,
◆ a storm with dry, driving snow, strong winds, and intense cold. ◆ a heavy and prolonged snowstorm covering a wide area. There was a big one last night. It has been quite awhile since I’ve experienced one. I believe the last one was here too, on the High Planes about a decade ago. We
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The February Moon has traditionally been called the Snow Moon due to the heavy snowfall typical of the season. The National Weather Service corroborates that, showing on average, February is the snowiest month for the U.S. Other names used by the Native Tribes were Hunger and Bone Moon. There was so little food that the
As I have improved my connection with nature, I invest more energy in that connection. Looking to each sunrise, sunset or full moon for inspiration and beauty. So when a Super Blood Wolf Moon comes along, it’s time to celebrate. Time to slow down and experience the grand beauty of nature. A lunar eclipse in
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Addiction [uh-dik-shuh n] the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming. “Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.” ― Carl Gustav Jung We’re all dealing with addiction in one form or another and how, (or should I
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What does “Be Prepared” mean to you? Does it remind you of the Boy Scout motto? Be Prepared is commonly used in reference to, disaster, emergency or survival situations and we definitely need to be prepared for those events but we also need to be prepared for the synchronicity that we experience in everyday life.
We’re lucky to have our two oldest grandchildren come up and stay with us at the cottage for a couple of weeks each summer. This is the second year that we’ve done this and I hope it becomes a yearly tradition. They’re both 5 this summer and the time together at the cottage will probably
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