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Healing Laughing and Hugging

I just want to write a little about an amazing person, my sister-in-law Barb. She’s my brother Jeff’s wife and it is beyond question for me that she laughs more than anyone I have ever met. And it’s incredibly genuine and attractive. She just laughs all the time and giggles and is full of life. […]

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Journey of Ashes – Beginning

Here I am at the beginning of this trip, a trip which will include disposing of my mother’s ashes. It is a pilgrimage of sorts, which is really just a subset of this larger pilgrimage in my life, to fully find and become my self, my true self, without overlay of past or future. It […]

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Mom’s Ashes

As I mentioned in my last post, part of the reason for this trip is to dispose of my share of my mom’s ashes. It’s something I’ve never dealt with and it’s time. Yesterday, July 1st, was the 11th anniversary of her death. She died in 1998 from cancer which had spread to her liver. […]

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Biting One’s Tongue

When asked why he didn’t want to take revenge on someone who had abused him he said: “When you bite your tongue do you knock your teeth out?” Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi I’ve noticed something interesting lately which has to do with the truth and the speaking of it. I find that sometimes, the only […]

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When I Look in Your Eyes

Today while at the beach with some friends, we came upon a seal on the beach (pictured above) that appeared to not be doing so well. It’s generally strange to see seals on the beach here as they tend to stay on the rocks except to pup. Anyway, we thought about what to do and […]

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Acknowledging the Truth and What That Brings

Something is up inside me, something which has been brewing for some time now, and I’m not sure exactly what it is, but I know it has something to do with the truth. For something that sounds so definite (“The Truth”), it feels very amorphous and vague at times, like when I’m trying to figure […]