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Re-membering Who We Are: #1 – Who Gives Joy

Posted on April 25, 2024 by Deborah

In February last year, ( 2023 ) I unwittingly began a series called Becoming Whole that carried me for most of the year. I haven’t posted often since 2024 began and I want to renew my commitment to sharing. I … Continue reading →

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Becoming Whole: #33 – Looking More Deeply

Posted on February 7, 2024 by Deborah

After 400 years of separating our rationality from all the other ways we know “things,” our wisdom has been watered down, our intelligence short-circuited.. Like animals in zoos, we have been boxed too tightly to nurture our full capacity for … Continue reading →

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Becoming Whole: #32 – Who Are We Really?

Posted on January 30, 2024 by Deborah

“I think I might have a dog’s nose,” s/he said, looking amazed. “I’ve never experienced anything like this…I can smell each person’s unique scent and I don’t mean perfume or after-shave. I mean every body smells different. I asked some … Continue reading →

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Becoming Whole: #31 – Reframing Winter Solstice

Posted on December 21, 2023 by Deborah

I am devoted to redeeming the miracle, magnificence and fecundity of the dark, so I am always a little sad when winter Solstice arrives in the Northern Hemisphere. I might not feel that way if our summer Solstice were all … Continue reading →

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Becoming Whole: #30- FORK in the Road

Posted on November 29, 2023 by Deborah

David Korten challenges us with the need to choose. Do we choose love for life as our guiding principle or the love of money. He points out that the former leads to thriving and the latter to species’ suicide.  Michelle … Continue reading →

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Becoming Whole: #29- Love Knows No Limits

Posted on November 22, 2023 by Deborah

Continuing with wisdom from S/He Who Shall Not Be Named: …you cannot fight for peace…(but) even when we are peace seekers and peace activists, we still perpetuate the same patterns of war, patterns like ownership, possessions – mine – not … Continue reading →

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Posted on November 15, 2023 by Deborah

Becoming Whole: #28- Love Yourself The presenter for our 5th Session in the course: Thriving in the Emerging New World blew my heart wide open. She Who Shall Not Be Named to Protect her Life and the Lives of Those … Continue reading →

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Becoming Whole: #27- Spiritual Pain

Posted on November 6, 2023 by Deborah

I spend yesterday with a group from a Christian denomination. We wrestle with the future path of the church. How can we be more relevant, attract a larger community, practice our values of inclusion and service? I am imagining that … Continue reading →

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Becoming Whole: #26- the Multidimensional Self

Posted on October 30, 2023 by Deborah

Say the name, Jude Currivan, and I sigh now with adoration. What a marvelous exemplar of human aliveness and wholeness: intelligent, loving, grounded, humorous, thorough, delighted with sacred science, aware and responsive, passionate about the possibilities for humanity’s conscious evolution, … Continue reading →

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Becoming Whole: #25-What Does Being Human Mean?

Posted on October 23, 2023 by Deborah

For Session #3 of the ongoing course called: Thriving into the Emerging New World, Jeremy Lent presented Transforming Pathways for a Life-Affirming Future. As hoNework, Mattie Porte, our host, offered several reflection questions. The one that captured me and relates … Continue reading →

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