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Comment on What We Read This Week by Check My Reference

Check My Reference — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 19:23:47 +0000

You’re so interesting! I do not believe I have read through a single thing like that before. So nice to discover another person with some genuine thoughts on this topic. Really.. many thanks for starting this up. This website is something that is needed on the web, someone with a bit of originality!

Comment on Writing Democracy. Or not. by Eleanor Thompson

Eleanor Thompson — Fri, 31 May 2013 17:59:16 +0000

This whole story is an outrage to the concern and desire to be heard in an issue of great importance to all those wanting a say in this pipeline issue and the environmental issues resulting from oil spills. As Canadians we need to be able to speak from wherever we live. Hopefully the senate issues will bring down this government and policies will change.

Comment on Collaging the Deep Self by Donna

Donna — Wed, 01 May 2013 17:40:30 +0000

Lovely idea Margaret. I think I will try this with my spirituality group. Thank you!!

Comment on Arts and Activism by Patricia A. McGoldrick

Patricia A. McGoldrick — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:30:32 +0000

Susan, so glad you shared this link for your post!
It is wonderful to be able to contribute to such a process!
Happy Poetry Month!

Comment on A Morning Meditation on the Value of Periodic, Non-Judgmental Self-Examination by flouann

flouann — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 04:49:32 +0000

RESPONSE TO SUSAN McCASLIN’S MORNING MEDITATION
on the Value of Periodic, Non-Judgmental Self-Examination

Susan, thank you for this—
I am richer for it.
I had some ‘monk’s moments’.

(I love)
idle or hard-working chit-chat;
the inner Voice sighs:

the great room of exchange
where the commerce of the tongue
is lovely

Spirit urges brevity.
forgiving generates
more and more forgiveness

periodic interior searches are important…
they keep our shadows from growing so long
we can’t see them as shadows

a way of honouring the brevity of life;
energy to finally and fully embrace life.
(Of course, I found a poem in your prose.)

Franci Louann flouann@telus.net January 31, 2013

Comment on A Morning Meditation on the Value of Periodic, Non-Judgmental Self-Examination by Jennifer McCaslin

Jennifer McCaslin — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 07:54:30 +0000

In your family we all still interrupt and talk over each other. It’s still the norm at home, and Dad told me this morning I’m a chatterbox that won’t let him have a word in edge wise. So these things continue. Your inner voice is still good. It doesn’t insult you.

The person that you remember as your mother is not the same as the person I remember as Grandma. I saw her differently. She was always the one sitting on the couch with a Garfield T-shirt, watching TBN, bringing toys back from Fred Meyer for me to play with, and telling me that the Lord talked to her this morning. I never understood quite how Jesus was talking to her all the time. She always said, “The Lord told me this and that.” All I remember is the Jesus painting on the wall, the stuffed lamb, the giant lion painting on the wall, coloring books, plastic eggs, and having peanuts handed to me, with her saying, please feed the squirrel. And too many Hershey bars in the Kitchen. All sugar and TV dinners, cheap Saltines and jars of peanut butter in the house.

“Here you go Jen, you need some protein to help you go to the bathroom. Have some peanut butter.”

I don’t have so many memories of being angry with her, just mostly laughing at her. I apologize now for it, I had no idea the situation she was in.

I remember having to give foot massages to Grandma with a tiny plastic roller skate for 50 cents. She is the one I remember put her hands on my head to bind the evil forces coming against me. To me, she was a different person. And I still wonder what evil forces she saw grabbing onto David’s head. What was she seeing that I didn’t see? Why was she waiving her hands in front of Davids head and yelling at some invisible “thing” to let go of him all the time?

“Forgive me my debtors—— as I find a way to forgive my Student Loan Debt, and forgive the people that Indebted me. Forgive me my debt and make it go away…….”

Comment on A Morning Meditation on the Value of Periodic, Non-Judgmental Self-Examination by Donna

Donna — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:40:11 +0000

Thanks Susan — what an honest and thoughtful reflection. I too was a shy young person — and now, in my elder years, with more self-confidence, have been known to rant freely. Your comments (for me) are a needed call to self-awareness.

Comment on Awakening the Peaceful Beast Within by Alice Major

Alice Major — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:02:29 +0000

I like the idea of peace as being a threshold, an entry point to the future rather than an arrived-at place. It does seem to overcome that static sense of ‘passivity and denial’ that you identify.

Comment on A Sermon By Any Other Name by Private Loans For College Students

Private Loans For College Students — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 12:35:50 +0000

Way cool! Some extremely valid points! I appreciate you penning
this post plus the rest of the website is really good.

Comment on A Sermon By Any Other Name by Wood Lake Publishing

Wood Lake Publishing — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:10:19 +0000

Hi Coy,

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