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Tag: #Now

  • Daily Spark: Slow, Steady Progress

    Mike Dooley said, “I still don’t get why people are so surprised that the turtle beat the rabbit over the long run.  Consistent effort, no matter how small, sparks magic, and rewrites destinies.”

  • Daily Spark: Sleepwalking Through Life

    I want more than simply sleepwalking through my life! Philip Toshio Sudo mirrored my thoughts on this when he said, “We take life for granted, sleepwalking until a shattering event knocks us awake.”

  • Your Legacy

    In writing a draft obituary for my mom, at her request, it made me think of writing my own.  What do I most want to be known for?  How many of those things am I progressing today, in the sacred now?

  • Daily Spark: Red Bird

    As I grow more and more aware of the need to experience my life NOW, not in the past, where I have been, not in the future, where I am not yet, but NOW, I have more and more appreciation for the works of poet Mary Oliver.

  • Daily Spark: Right on Time

    I have given a lot of thought to these words by Asha Tyson, when she said, “Your journey has molded you for the greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don’t think that you’ve lost time. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. …

  • Accessible Now!

    Glen Wilhite (a 94-year-old family friend) said, “As I am more in the end of my life, I find that it is not so much about striving and desiring transformation.  I am meditating daily and realizing that all is accessible NOW, not in some future time or place.”

  • Daily Spark: Celebrate Good Times

    Today was a good day, a joyful day.  After five weeks of health challenges with life and death struggles, my partner made it home from the hospital.  I feel a bit like singing Kool and the Gang’s song, you all know it: “Celebrate good times, come on!”

  • Daily Spark: In This Moment

    Walt Whitman said, “Happiness, not in another place but this place…not for another hour, but this hour.”

  • Daily Spark: Here is Wonderful

    “I will get there. But right now I am here, and here is wonderful!” Ahh, THERE is the work to do – to really believe that here is wonderful.  To allow what is.

  • Daily Spark: One Thought Over Another

    William James said, “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”