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News! Musical Sanctuary

I have a project that I would like you to know about: Musical Sanctuary. Musical Sanctuary is the result of many years of working with the Connect & Glow™ meditation, adding music and developing themed meditations that offer healing solutions…

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Thank You

Thank you for pink in the sky
this bare branch morning.
Thank you for robin egg blue sliver on the horizon,
for muffled evergreen sketched in charcoal and mist
on a steely lavender shadow of island.

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Fragrance Free - Please!

Fragrance Free!
Important for anyone who likes to breathe!
Links to helpful resources are below.
Do you remember when smoking cigarettes was accepted and allowed? In the workplace, airplanes, restaurants - ?! Seems unimaginable today. Slowly the public learned of…

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ONE CITIZEN An Alternate Form of Governance

The premise: All people will experience greater safety, health, purposefulness, security, happiness, and overall well-being when all people are supported in discovering and expressing their best individual self. 

One Citizen governance addresses many current issues. Most immediate and pressing are: …

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The First Lesson

The First Lesson

Music is my religion
Chocolate, the communion.
Pain is my guru
“No thoughts necessary,” the mantra.
Kindness is the catechism
and beauty is the gospel.
As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be…

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Relax, and take a nice deep breath...

Relax, and take a nice, deep breath....

There is a reason that nearly all meditation exercises begin with slow, intentional breathing: deep breaths activate the relaxation response, one of the functions of the parasympathetic aspect of the autonomic nervous system…

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Just Past Arbuckle - Notes From the Road

Just Past Arbuckle

Just past Arbuckle
telephone poles list
in tandem.
Shadows cross-hatch
at exit five-five-nine
County Line
and orchard rows swirl
in a mesmerizing polka.
Young branches raised kalani,
a nut tree halau
in graceful undulation.
On a distant…

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The Seeker

In 1984 I had been in recovery for a couple of years; I was doing well in college, and enjoying working in my garden. I lived in a lovely two-story red-shingled Craftsman house in Sebastopol, California. Two palm trees graced…

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Steiner on Nature

Randomly opened to the following passage in Rudolph Steiner's "How to Know Higher Worlds":

"The ideal situation would be to pursue our esoteric training among green plants and sunny mountains, surrounded by the loveliness of nature’s simplicity. This would produce…

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Mystical Glow Tour

Presentations in Vashon, Port Townsend, Lummi Island and Crescent City have been sweet and magical. The morning service at Lummi Congregational Church on the first day of Advent with an inspiring talk by Pastor Larson and beautiful piano music by…

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