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SELF-DETERMINATION

4/17/2018

"A tree grows with no one's consent
and no one's applause."
Mark Nepo
THE BOOK OF AWAKENING

A healer friend from South America recently shared this word with me. "Maestranza" loosely translated means "The people around me helping." While sometimes it may refer to a team or staff, it can also mean those who help us on our journey. It may be the stranger who says just the right thing to you at just the right time or the friend who lends a shoulder when you need support. It can be an unexpected kindness from an anonymous giver or a warm hug from a partner at the end of the day.

Let us honor our maestranza. The known and unknown souls who smooth our way, bless our passage and hold Light for our journey. We thank you.

AUTUMNAL EQUINOX

9/14/2017

The Equinoxes remind us that balance is not a static state.
Life is both expansion and contraction-a dynamic dance.
As trees shed their leaves in autumn,
we may choose to shed those things which no longer serve us.

SERVICE

6/5/2017

"Helping, fixing, and serving
represent three different ways of seeing life.
When you help, you see life as weak.
When you fix, you see life as broken.
When you serve, you see life as whole.

Fixing and helping may be the work of the ego.
Service is the work of the soul."
Rachel Naomi Remen

COLOR

2/3/2017

"Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body."

Kandinsky - Russian Abstract Artist

All Relations

1/3/2017

"If you talk to the animals,
They will talk with you.
And you will know each other.
If you do not talk with them
You will not know them.
And what you don’t know
You will fear.
What one fears,
One destroys."
Chief Dan George

CHANGE

12/3/2016

"Small acts,
when multiplied by
millions of people,
can transform
the world."
Howard Zinn

TRANSIENCE

11/4/2016

"What is life?

It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the
wintertime;
It is the little shadow which runs across the grass
and loses itself in the sunset."

Attributed to Chief Crowfoot (1830-1890)

with thanks to Rachael

Beginnings

9/22/2016

"If the Angel deigns to come,
It will be because
You have convinced her,
Not by tears,
But by your humble resolve
To always be beginning:
To be a Beginner."

Poet Rainer Maria Rilke

STRENGTH

2/26/2016

    "Some of us think
               holding on
    makes us
                 strong;
    but sometimes
                           it is
                               letting go."
             - Herman Hesse

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