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Awakening to Bliss

GUEST POST by MARGIE MARTIN CAMPBELL   Have you ever felt blissful on a hot summer afternoon when the air was so still you could only get a very small breeze by swinging in the old porch swing? The one that Grandpa built all those years ago before you were born. Sure, the house windows are up with screens in place to “let a little air [...]

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Finding My Bliss

GUEST POST by EMMA MACAILLEN     I am unsure that I ever find my bliss. I think it finds me.  I do sense that there are preconditions in order for it to present itself. Perhaps I need to get out of my own way in order for that to happen, or at least “out of my mind.” I think bliss is a state of the awakened heart. I have glimpses [...]

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Aging With Eyes Wide Open

There seem to be three basic ways most of us adapt to aging:  with our eyes shut, with our eyes half open, or with our eyes wide open. The first group consists of those in denial about aging, like women who protest, “Don’t ever call me old!”   The second group is where most of us fall; some days we acknowledge our aging and plan for [...]

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Survival Tips for 2019

When someone wishes me “Happy New Year” I’m tempted to respond, “What’s to be happy about given all the bad news in the country?” We’re faced with a government shutdown, record numbers of migrant families held in cages, a mustached war hawk Presidential advisor and massive social and income inequality. Once I settle down I realize [...]

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A Self-Care Skeptic 

I had a lousy week.  I fractured my foot. I was freaked out by the more-depressing-than-usual headlines of amped-up hate speech, of an American journalist being brutally murdered by the Saudis, of rampant voter suppression and on and on. There seemed to be no end to bad news. To lift my spirits I tried the familiar self-care suggestions.  [...]

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Count Basie, My Spiritual Guide

Guest Post by Michael Steinman I used to think of the pianist, composer, bandleader Count Basie, whose birthday was August 21st, as a monumental figure of the jazz I love.  Maybe he is no more to readers than a dimly remembered figure.  As I’ve aged, though, I think of him as a spiritual guide – not in anything he said, but in the spacious [...]

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When Loss Brings Up More Than I Bargained For

This past weekend I attended the memorial service for Connie Chandler Ward, one of the founders of Greenfire, a women’s spiritual retreat center in Tenants Harbor, Maine. Connie, a former Wellesley chaplain had been a spiritual mentor to me and many others. As I rushed out the door I stuffed a packet of travel-sized Kleenex in my purse, [...]

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