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Thanksgiving Week underway - so many thoughts and

Thanksgiving Week underway - so many thoughts and feelings today. And then this family bike ride at sunset that lifted me out of the emotions of the day to get a higher perspective - gratitude is some serious medicine, isn’t it?! #natureheals #getoutside #lookup #livewhatmatters #wedothistogether #thanksgiving2020

Now + then I get a song lyric in my mind – seems

Now + then I get a song lyric in my mind – seems to come out of nowhere. It can take me a while of humming the song to realize that it’s bringing a message or mantra that can guide me.
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When I was thinking of leaving my teaching job, without a clear vision of how to work for myself, I couldn’t get “Go Your Own Way” (Fleetwood Mac) out of my head for weeks. But I didn’t put it together.
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The first day I dropped of my girls at that school + didn’t go into the classroom to teach myself, I returned to my car, turned on the radio – + pulled out of that parking lot to “Open up – everything’s waiting for you….you can go your own way.”
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I got it.
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Thank you, Life. Thank you, Music. Thank you, Truth.
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For the past two weeks, I’ve been singing Wilco under my breath – “Love is Everywhere”.
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These past few days, this has become my mantra.
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I play this game where I say the lyric to myself – “Right now, love is everywhere.”
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Then I have to find it -
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A tree. A dog. A teenager. A husband. A neighbor. A memory. A masked smile at the grocery store. A cozy sweatshirt. An encouraging text. A cup of tea. A conversation. A moon. A fresh avocado. Some laughter.
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I picked up chicken soup f/ this little restaurant on the corner yesterday + the song was playing – barely audible f/ the kitchen in the back.
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I heard it.
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Loud + clear.
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Last night, I remembered how I came to know those lyrics – at home – in the minutes leading into January 1st, 2020.
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Boyd was learning that song on the piano. I’d never heard it before. It was such a sweet, lovely night with our children out, the Christmas tree still up, the hope of a New Year around us.
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If someone said you can erase 2020, I wouldn’t do it. Because I would have to give up the love I have found everywhere – and the love that led up to it from 2019…and the love that is unfolding for 2021.
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I would have to give up how awakened I’ve become to how easy it is to find fear everywhere – to LIVE fear.
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I won’t give that up. We’re not going back.
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Love IS everywhere. But only if one decides that it is...+ plays Life to the song that sings to one’s highest good.
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#listenforit #loveiseverywhere #livewhatmatters

It's a good night to read poetry before bed...it w

It's a good night to read poetry before bed...it will be a good day for poetry tomorrow and the day after that.

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Sometimes, in between the other times, poetry is the only place that is big enough to hold all of the feelings, thoughts - emotions, experiences - and still leave room for one's imagination.

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I find my poems in books, or in music, also in the sounds of my backyard or the hums of my home.
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A lot of times, I find Mary Oliver and her poems seem to be right for all of the occasions.

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I watched the geese fly in formation above our street today - they fly like that almost every day. It always makes me think of this poem. Especially now, as we each seek to find our place in the (evolving + emerging) family of things.

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The world does go on, doesn't it...it's a special thing to notice.

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Like the way these two look curled up together on an Election Night. And now the day is over. Another one begins so soon. The sun does rise. She will need breakfast. He will need a walk. The world will offer itself to my imagination and yours, yet again.

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It's nice to let it all go, remembering....

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

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#wildgeese #maryoliver #livewhatmatters
#wedothistogether #practicepeace #lovewhatyoulove #riggs

How do *you* handle the heightened uncertainty of

How do *you* handle the heightened uncertainty of these days? #kitchendancing #vanhalen #panama #musicheals #familytime #practicejoy #livewhatmatters #wedothistogether

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