Drawing Attention to Life

Anne — Fri, 03 May 2013 21:14:32 +0000

for Good Friday

Anne — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 01:48:43 +0000

“She just let go.”

Anne — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 16:57:59 +0000

She let go.
Without a thought or a word,
she let go. She let go of the fear.
She let go of the judgments. She
let go of the confluence of
opinions swarming around her
head. She let go of the committee
of indecision within her. She let
go of all the ‘right’ reasons.
Wholly and completely, without
hesitation or worry, she just let go.

She didn’t ask anyone for advice .
She didn’t read a book on how to
let go. She didn’t search the
scriptures. She just let go. She let
go of all the memories that held
her back. She let go of all the
anxiety that kept her from moving
forward. She let go of the
planning and all of the
calculations about how to
do it just right.

She didn’t promise to let go. She
didn’t journal about it. She didn’t
write the projected date in her
Day-Timer. She made no public
announcement and put no ad in
the paper. She didn’t check the
weather report or read her daily
horoscope. She just let go.

She didn’t analyze whether she
should let go. She didn’t call her
friends to discuss the matter. She
didn’t do a five-step Spiritual
Mind Treatment. She didn’t call
the prayer line. She didn’t utter
one word. She just let go.

No one was around when it
happened. There was no
applause or congratulations. No
one thanked her or praised her.
No one noticed a thing. Like a
leaf falling from a tree, she just
let go. There was no effort. There
was no struggle. It wasn’t good
and it wasn’t bad. It was what it
was, and it is just that.

In the space of letting go, she let
it all be. A small smile came over
her face. A light breeze blew
through her. And the sun and the
moon shone forevermore.. ♥
~ Reverend Safire Rose

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“Success”

Anne — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:36:32 +0000

“To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and affection of children;
to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child a garden patch or redeemed social condition;
to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.”

-–Bessie A. Stanley (often misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson–http://emerson.tamu.edu/Ephemera/Success.html)

Mindfulness draws attention

Anne — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:36:31 +0000

To read more, click here.

New Year Resolve

Anne — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:31:59 +0000

New Year Resolve
by May Sarton

The time has come
To stop allowing the clutter
To clutter my mind
Like dirty snow,
Shove it off and find
Clear time, clear water.

Time for a change,
Let silence in like a cat
Who has sat at my door
Neither wild nor strange
Hoping for food from my store
And shivering on the mat.

Let silence in.
She will rarely speak or mew,
She will sleep on my bed
And all I have ever been
Either false or true
Will live again in my head.

For it is now or not
As old age silts the stream,
To shove away the clutter,
To untie every knot,
To take the time to dream,
To come back to still water.

“New Year Resolve” by May Sarton, from Collected Poems 1930-1993. © W.W. Norton & Co., 1993. From The Writers Almanac, December 30, 2012.

What’s in that tree? A bear!

Anne — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 03:07:25 +0000

A few of these photos appeared in the local Boulder newspaper, the Daily Camera: http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_21513429/bear-climbs-up-tree-across-street-from-fairview

And they even were shown on the Channel 4 (CBS) Denver news!

It was a fun day of news stories about bears…

Couldn’t have said it better myself, so…

Anne — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 21:25:47 +0000

…I’ll just put up this link with congratulations to the author. Please consider reading and reflecting on Mr. Kreider’s words and ideas: “The ‘Busy’ Trap,” New York Times, Sunday, July 1, 2012
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Thoughts?

Anne — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 20:35:26 +0000

Fire has been devastating this summer, and it’s only July 1. But even before the conflagration in Colorado over the past weeks, I came across this item while on a walk. It lay in the street next the sidewalk. My curiosity is piqued: what could possibly have led to this? If you have any thoughts, please let me know. Frankly, I shudder to think…

I’m really liking Sara Miles

Anne — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 19:21:34 +0000

“In the verse, Moses foreshadowed Jesus with an unusual emphasis on experienced grace rather than codified religious law. “Surely, this commandment that I am commanding you today is not too hard for you, nor is it too far away,” he told his people. “It is not in heaven, that you should say, ‘Who will go up to heaven for us, and get it for us so that we may hear it and observe it?’ Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, ‘Who will cross to the other side of the sea for us, and get it for us so that we may hear it and observe it?’ No, the word is very near to you; it is in your mouth and in your heart for you to observe.” — Sara Miles on Deuteronomy in Take This Bread

“…it is in your mouth and in your heart for you to observe.” It’s that close. Amen.