From the monthly archives:

February 2010

The Eyes Have It

by Brooke Leigh Sheldon on February 28, 2010

When we look at each other what captures us?  What do we catch in a glimpse making us want to look back, look away or look again?  And do we trust ourselves enough to do what we feel driven to do?  What do you think?

Music: Open Your Eyes by mykleanthony with Scomber

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Music Credit:  Kevin MacLeod

All systems are go!  Everything has been arranged.  But I will tell you now, you only have 6 hours to do the job and do it right.  This mission is yours, it has been chosen especially for you.  I can get you back to the right time and place and then return you home again, but only you can do what must be done.  Good luck, my friend, I know you will succeed. For at this task you are the only master.

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Guest post by Elizabeth Wescott of  Elizabeth Clair Wescott, Qigong Healer

From our series of reader submitted stories comes this beautiful account from Elizabeth Wescott …

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What I do is little. I do it at home, each day. I do it in an hour’s time, more or less. The results aren’t easy to measure or define.

That what I do is all of these things, is part of what makes it important to tell about. What I do is use some of my moments to extend love, peace and healing thoughts to people. In those moments I love people I know, and don’t know, and sometimes people I have trouble getting along with. In those moments I remember what is important and I get as close to it as I can. It can be called healing work. It doesn’t matter what it’s called.

Each day those moments change me. Each day those moments refresh for me and my purpose. And, so, I live more peacefully, more gracefully, more generously than I otherwise would. I live my life closer to what’s important to me than I otherwise would.

Part of the reason I do this is because I experience a lot of physical limitation in my life that makes participating in ways that are more recognizable an unrealistic option. But I refuse to believe that I cannot participate fully, and that I cannot offer peace and love and life altering things to the world, because I can’t do it in ways that we recognize culturally as significant.

Sometimes people feel better when they are amongst those included in those moments I spend sending goodwill. Sometimes I don’t know what people experience. But I do know that moments count. And in little things we can see peace present.

What each of us has to offer is enough. Each of us has moments. And that counts.

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From A Distance

February 14, 2010

A campfire under a night sky blazing with stars. It is at once an opportunity to find your littleness and your bigness in the universe and to contemplate the significance of you – from a distance.

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Volunteering for Disaster: Interview with American Red Cross volunteer M. Ann Smith

February 7, 2010

As a member of the American Red Cross National Disaster Human Resource Team, M. Ann Smith has been deployed to 16 national disasters in 15 states. She provided relief to victims of 9/11 and Katrina as well as innumerable tornadoes, floods, tropical storms, forest fires and home fires. Although officially retired from her teaching job at Chadron State College in Nebraska, Ann is never unoccupied, or without and adventure in her back pocket.

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Laughing Science

February 6, 2010

“What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul”
Yiddish proverb
I hold on to the pinpoint luxury of those words.
However, there are people who study the intention behind the subject of those words.
For laughter and laughing have a science all their own. It’s called:
GELOTOLOGY.
That’s right. I realize that sounds more as if it suggests [...]

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