Category Archives: Connection

Touchstone – Filling our Bowls

Posted on Fri 01 16 by Lisa Sorensen

29 January 2016           The sun shines not on us but in us. ~John Muir It’s raining again, a gentle percussion on my skylights, a soft steady drip from the eaves.  It reminds me of the … Continue reading →

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Touchstone – Ballast and Keel

Posted on Fri 01 16 by Lisa Sorensen

22 January 2016 In Silence there is eloquence.  Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves. ~Rumi Quiet reflection, space to query and listen are a way to explore the values that matter deeply to me. This is not unproductive … Continue reading →

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Touchstone – Devotions

Posted on Sat 01 16 by Lisa Sorensen

15 January 2016 What matters is that one of the ways we grow up is by declaring what we love.  ~Shauna Niequist, Bread and Wine After writing this week’s first post about creating intentions around the things I am devoted … Continue reading →

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Touchstone – A Rhythm with Repose

Posted on Sat 01 16 by Lisa Sorensen

9 January 2016 Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go. ~Oriah Mountain Dreamer, The Dance: Moving to the Rhythms of Your True Self … Continue reading →

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A Rhythm with Repose

Posted on Tue 01 16 by Lisa Sorensen

5 January 2016 And as with prayer, which is a dipping of oneself toward the light, there is a consequence of attentiveness to the grass itself, and to the sky itself, and to the floating bird.  I too leave the … Continue reading →

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Dots into Patterns

Posted on Tue 12 15 by Lisa Sorensen

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

Posted on Thu 12 15 by Lisa Sorensen

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

Posted on Wed 12 15 by Lisa Sorensen

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

Posted on Fri 12 15 by Lisa Sorensen

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

Posted on Tue 12 15 by Lisa Sorensen

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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