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A Hunger for Joy — Lorca’s TEDx
I found when I had told this story here that I had never told it before — not like this. We find the opening when what needs to be...
Jun 18, 20181 min read
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Would you like to hear the eulogy at your own funeral?
“And you would be…?” Good morning, dearests. Would you like to hear the eulogy at your own funeral? I think I just did. I had a rare...
Apr 13, 20173 min read
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How we _really_ honor those we’ve lost
With our lives. Aimlessness and loss compound each other. Perhaps you’re lying in bed at night worrying about tomorrow or next...
Mar 12, 20162 min read
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Fighting terrorism from where you are
Dear ones, this morning I, too, am torn, deeply sad and sorry and worried, reaching out to friends to know they’re safe, aware...
Nov 14, 20151 min read
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Radical Awakeness: Living Among Animals
Spoken to the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Bozeman for the Blessing of the Animals… I was invited to share today in part because...
Sep 28, 20154 min read
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Taking PTSD under the pavilion
The gift of inland islands… Three months ago post-traumatic stress came to walk beside me again, after many years gone. Random panic...
Aug 12, 20154 min read
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The Pain-Bearers
Sometimes I think I have come into this life as one of the pain-bearers — not one who takes all pain onto herself, nor one who takes it...
May 18, 20151 min read
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Adventures in “Deathbed” Conversations
A story and an invitation and a challenge. The story is here in this short Pecha Kucha video. This was about people playing with...
Dec 29, 20145 min read
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This I believe.
We are all together on this ship and some of us will die sooner. Some young. I will grieve again, and comfort. It may be me. Those of...
Nov 4, 20142 min read
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Where gracefulness matters and where it doesn’t.
But this is where I want to be clear. I am not asking that my engagement with my own particular demons be clean. That I stay fully...
Mar 7, 20141 min read
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Burnout is an open door.
Sometimes I feel I must be an alien, because I really, really love to talk about death, and about burnout. But this is really why. When I...
Feb 18, 20141 min read
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Resilience is Power. And Peace.
“I just wanted myself back, and then to create something more. After what I’ve been through, I am not going to settle for an average...
Feb 6, 20143 min read
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