Transformational Presence
Your presence—how you show up to life—no matter how powerful or subtle, impacts what happens in your world, just because you are there. How do you choose to show up? How do you choose to make a difference?
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Mirrors in the Silence (opens the original)
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Autumn is in the air here in central Massachusetts. I’ve been feeling the seasonal transition easing in for the last few weeks, yet now the nights really are crisper and the days are cooler. And soon green leaves will turn to shades of yellow, orange, and red. As September comes to an end and autumn comes into its glory, I feel like I’m not just stepping into a new season of the year; somehow, I’m stepping deeper into a new season in my life. Looking back I can see how my summer at Chautauqua wa
It Was Only a Dream in the Night (opens the original)
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It was only a dream in the night.Or was it more?Fifteen or twenty peoplefrom multiple generationsgathered in an open spacefrom countries all around the world.I had been invited to join by a wonderful musician and educator I had known fifty years ago. In her eighties now,she was still incredibly vibrant.I asked her Why me? What will be my role?She simply replied You should be there.People mingled, moving from one conversation to another.Ordinary people livin
The Fire Rages On (opens the original)
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It was the last morning walk of my Chautauqua summer. I lingered longer than usual in my favorite quiet reflection spot, asking the lake to continue carrying me as it always does through the autumn and winter months. I trusted that my months-long pilgrimage to soul was not over. At some point in my meditation, a great blue heron joined me on a nearby dock, and a
Hope for Our Times (opens the original)
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Pilgrimage to Soul (opens the original)
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It was a very special summer. It turns out I was on a pilgrimage of sorts. Chautauqua was the landscape. And as the summer unfolded, that word “pilgrimage” came to mean something much bigger than its standard definition—an intentional journey to a sacred place. Indeed, it was a journey. And, in fact, it was a journey to soul. Yet it was so much bigger than just to my soul. It was a journey to soul as the breath of life, as the animating essence of all that is, as Love, as connection
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