Monthly Archives: October 2024

My Teacher Did What?!

Posted on October 31, 2024 by admin

One morning when I am about eight years old, Mom drops me off at elementary school especially early. In my third-grade classroom, there are only a few other students, along with our much-adored teacher Jane Hill. Miss Hill is at … Continue reading →

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Social-beat

Posted on October 30, 2024 by Bob Patrick

We recently considered the practice of listening to our own heart-beat as a way of listening to personal wisdom. I think there is another kind of listening that we can open to. It’s not our heart-beat, but the social-beat, if … Continue reading →

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Ocean Song

Posted on October 29, 2024 by admin

Places sing calling songs.  Just now, they might be missing their people. We might learn that by allowing ourselves to miss them… In our bone-deep missing, and in our willingness to remember ourselves as worthy of being missed, we could … Continue reading →

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Heart-Beat

Posted on October 28, 2024 by Bob Patrick

Have you ever heard your own heart beating? It might have happened in some big, demanding moment.  Maybe you had to engage in some very demanding physical activity (running, lifting, holding, carrying) and when you finished the activity, you could … Continue reading →

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Guidance

Posted on October 25, 2024 by Bob Patrick

In these remaining days before our national election, there are so many voices and messages vying for our attention. If we want to be responsible participants in our democracy, most of us feel like we have an obligation to listen, … Continue reading →

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Breathing

Posted on October 24, 2024 by admin

Is meditation your friend? I know it should be my friend, but true confession: I am terrible at maintaining a relationship with meditation. I know this is to my detriment. I know all of the benefits of meditation, but I … Continue reading →

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Listening to Our Innermost Self

Posted on October 23, 2024 by admin

There is a room that is called the quietest room on earth in a laboratory in Minnesota. It is completely covered in the highest quality acoustic tiles and is a cube suspended inside another cube with springs that reduce outside … Continue reading →

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