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Hello Friends and Subscribers,

This is our second entry in a ten-part, ten-week series.

If you’re late to the series, you’re welcome to listen to the first installment here.

This exploration is fluid, so there’s no need to listen sequentially — the entries reflect the content, meaning they are circular and improvisational in their form. Rather than presenting a program, we journey into Being first, and let Becoming — living intentionally — emerge.

The reflections and meditations are joined thematically and dynamically, meaning you won’t find a bullet list to get you from point A to point B.

Practicing awareness, and practicing together, allows us to Become. We create space around things. In that space we appreciate what is, and Being allows us to listen more deeply to the Whisper that guides, inspires, directs, and leads us to thrive, as the endless demands of the ego, the pain body, and the habits that keep us stuck begin losing their grip.

This is a practice, and the practice begins in this moment.

Thank you for joining us. Every person and every practice brings peace to the world and her sorrows.

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Today’s photo is a cluster of Paul Robeson heirloom tomatoes ripening on the vine in the garden, edited with a Color Pop filter.

 

Cool video on Twitter that you don’t want to miss:

A myoisin protein dragging an endorphin along a filament to the inner part of the brain’s parietal cortex which creates happiness. (Video)

The next installment in our ‘Internality’ series is Saturday, August 22..

Hope you can join us, then.

Photo: calendula from the garden, edited in PS Express..

Hello Friends and Subscribers,

This is our first in a ten-week, ten-part series.

I’m delighted that we’ll be exploring a topic that many of us struggle with — what does intentionality mean, how do we do it? What does it mean to be both present, or in the ‘now,’ yet intentional, that is, living with an end in mind?

I hope to gather some insights with you as we move forward, one intentional step at a time.

Today’s photo is the blossom for a red Chinese noodle bean, an heirloom that’s supposed to grow to 18 inches.

I think she looks like a Matilda.

And so she will be.

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“They also serve who only [sit] and wait.” — John Milton

This upcoming Saturday we’re beginning a ten-week series on ‘Intentionality.’

Today’s prelude gives us a moment to pause, reflect, and ‘be,’ because being is where becoming unfolds.

It’s a space that releases the ego’s bullet lists of to-dos and the mental chattering of compulsive planning — and from openness/awareness becoming intentional unfolds, or, becoming emerges.

We hope you can join us on this evolving journey.

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Flowers from the local farm stand on my home alter.

From my home to yours. I hope you enjoy.

“Everything’s intentional. It’s just filling in the dots.”
— David Byrne

Hello friends,

For the next ten Saturdays, we’ll be exploring ‘Intentionality.’

The series will  be different than its title may suggest, for it will engage a broad and, hopefully, cohesive understanding of the term.

Our format for the next ten weeks?

The Tuesday posts will be improvised. There may be recordings, but I suspect the content will be short, maybe a quote, a bit of art, a photo, a brief (or not so brief) written entry, and the content may or may not intersect with our ten week theme.

The weekly Saturday entry will be the thematically driven recorded reflection and meditation, with photo/quote/art as inspiration leads.

Today’s recording is a prelude, an invitation to consider the meaning and use of ‘intentionality,’ and to create a space for a deeper, expanding journey into intentional living.

Our small but engaged group invites you to join us in this journey.

Thanks for visiting and subscribing.

Peace.

Recorded audio reflection and meditation, click here:

 

 

 

“You understand so little of what is around you because you do not use what is within you.” *

Our final reflection in a twenty part series.  Click here to listen:

 

 

*Hildegard of Bingen, Scivias 1.2.29. Translation by Avis Clendenen

Hello friends,

I’ll be recording our finale this Tuesday. Sorry for the continued delay, but we’ll meet for certain this Tuesday.

Thanks for your understanding.  For today, I offer this excerpt from the poet John O’Donohue’s  book, “Beauty: The Invisible Embrace”.

The book is worth your time and imaginative exploration, but it reveals itself best through slow and deliberate contemplation, as this snippet suggests:

“When you take the time to draw on your listening-imagination, you will begin to hear this gentle voice at the heart of your life. It is deeper and surer than all the other voices of disappointment, unease, self-criticism and bleakness. All holiness is about learning to hear the voice of your own soul. It is always there and the more deeply you learn to listen, the greater surprises and discoveries that will unfold. To enter into the gentleness of your own soul changes the tone and quality of your life. Your life is no longer consumed by hunger for the next event, experience or achievement. You learn to come down from the treadmill and walk on the earth. You gain a new respect for yourself and others and you learn to see how wonderfully precious this one life is. You begin to see through the enchanting veils of illusion that you had taken for reality. You no longer squander yourself on things and situations that deplete your essence. You know now that your true source is not outside you. Your soul is your true source and a new energy and passion awakens in you.”

 

peace — jh

Hello everyone,

Several overlapping issues dictate postponing our series finale, hopefully no later than Tuesday — but perhaps next Saturday.

In the meantime, I’ll leave you with this:

 

“To be great, be whole;
Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.
Be whole in everything. Put all you are
Into the smallest thing you do.
So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor
Because it blooms up above.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Poems of Fernando Pessoa 

 

Until next time, peace.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The next to last entry in a twenty-part series. To listen, click here:

 

We’re going within and beyond for our final three entries.

Number eighteen in a twenty part series. Click here to listen: