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Sheltering Walls: Practices
In 1999, Lydia and I began a yoga practice in Birmingham, AL called Bikram Yoga (this is not an advertisement). Over the years, I’ve been practicing, on and off, as I am able to get to a studio. The last … Continue reading
Sheltering Walls: Power to Create
When you consider our theme, sheltering walls, what images comes to you? First image. No second guessing. I imagined asking a room full of people to do that and how rich I suspected the responses would be, but I don’t … Continue reading
Sheltering Walls: Soul
I wrote yesterday of the Universe and of the sheltering walls that all within it create for us. We may only receive glimpses of these kinds of cosmic sheltering walls, but the truth is that there is nothing in us … Continue reading
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Sheltering Walls: Wherever You are
Wherever you are is home And the earth is paradise Wherever you set your feet is holy land. . . You don’t live off it like a parasite. You live in it, and it in you, Or you don’t survive. … Continue reading
Sheltering Walls: Witness
I am thinking of sheltering walls as any experience, concrete or figurative, that create a space of safety and security for us. Certainly, a sheltering walls experience is relational in some respect. Consider the simple act of witness. It is … Continue reading
Sheltering Walls: Test of Time
We raised our children, mostly, in Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham does not have a pretty past, and it is not the first image one has of “sheltering walls.” But I want to tell three stories in short order. They are the stories … Continue reading
Sheltering Walls: Who’s In, Who’s Out?
The students were engaged in a lively, passionate discussion. Both were non-white Americans, and they were arguing over what it means to be a “minority”. As I listened to them, unnoticed, the argument seemed to be this. The one student’s … Continue reading