Category: civil graces
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Rewriting our Story
“What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world; what you do for others lives on forever.” ―Sir Ken Robinson This past week was a real defining moment for our country. We went through a roller coaster ride of the election, followed by a sudden announcement this weekend of the new…
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The Little Barn is Open
The Little Barn will be Open this Saturday! We all need a place to restore the human spirit! Come pull up a chair, have a cup of coffee, catch your breath, journal, take a walk, sit by the pond, and get your signed copy of The Civil Graces Project: The Pursuit for Common Ground. It will be a…
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Into the Heart
“The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us? We have all known the long loneliness, and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.” -Dorothy Day There is a…
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Opening to Possibilities
“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.” – Victor Hugo One of my favorite things to do on a weekend morning was to get a good cup of coffee and curl up with a stack of magazines and newspapers. Looking through…
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Our power together
“There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.” – Margaret J. Wheatley Do you ever stop and ponder what is really going on in our country and our world, and who is leading the charge? How did we get here in the first place, and how do we move forward?…
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Revealing Our Inner Shine
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the Change that we seek.” ― Barack Obama One of my favorite things to do on a Saturday morning is to polish our silver. I have…
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Treasure Map
“Every night, I lie in bedThe brightest colors fill my headA million dreams are keeping me awakeI think of what the world could beA vision of the one I seeA million dreams is all it’s gonna takeA million dreams for the world we’re gonna make.” -Songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, Performed by P!nk click here to…
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underneath it all
“The question is how our own meanings are related to those of the universe as a whole. We could say that our action toward the whole universe is a result of what it means to be us.” ― David Bohm All my life, I have tried to understand the underlying meaning in things–to answer the…
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shadow side
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche The “shadow side” is a term that comes from the work of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung. It refers to…
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close encounters
“The challenge with those whom we love is that they are the only ones who can get close enough to us to cause us heartbreak.” – Iyanla Vanzant The practice of holding space that I explore in The Civil Graces Project involves having the courage to meet someone and find the middle path together. This process is…