Monthly Archives: December 2015

Dots into Patterns

29 December 2015 The time is ripe for looking back over the day, the week, the year, and trying to figure out where we have come from and where we are going to, for sifting through the things we have … Continue reading

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Touchstone – A Primary Nutrient

24 December 2015 And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,                          stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so?           … Continue reading

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A Primary Nutrient

22 December 2015 It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.  ~Mother Teresa When we were going through my mother’s things after her death, an old, wobbly Christmas decoration surfaced from a box she … Continue reading

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Touchstone – The Most Wonderful Moment

17 December 2015 The feeling of connection we get when we do something fun with people we love is one of our most powerful sources of happiness. ~Christine Carter This week, between scattered list-crazed afternoons and doing one thing while thinking … Continue reading

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The Most Wonderful Moment

15 December 2015                Your heart is like a flower.  ~Thich Nhat Hahn I woke up recently to a sky dappled with silvery, puffy clouds and sunbeams glinting in the dewdrops dangling from the tree … Continue reading

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Touchstone – Dipping Deep into Joy

11 December 2015 Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.  ~Dr. Seuss Dipping into one memory, lingering over it, has led to a whole host of other memories springing forward.  I’m soaking … Continue reading

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Dipping Deep into Joy

8 December 2015 Rejoicing opens us tremendously, dissolving our barriers, thereby enabling intimacy to extend to all of life. ~ Sharon Salzberg, Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness In contrast to so many Christmases in the past, this year, I … Continue reading

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Touchstone – The Gift of Kindness

4 December 2015 And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince   Coming to … Continue reading

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The Gift of Kindness

1 December 2015 The existence of parallel truths is what gives our world its tremendous richness, and the grand scheme of things is far grander than our minds habitually imagine. ~Maria Popova, NY Times review of Dark Matter and The … Continue reading

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