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This months highlight was taking a 24-hour self-guided art retreat in Kansas City. Thanks to Airbnb I was able to stay right between the beautiful Plaza and Nelson Atkin’s Art Museum. Large trees and long parks and fountains abounded on either side. Plus I had a nice quiet veranda where I spent most of my … More Spring Art Retreat
Make a task happen automatically and you have extra decision-making energy that you can use towards something else. Automation reduces the friction of decision fatigue and frees up your mind to use it towards other things. Automation, if allowed to happen, creates a snowball effect. James Clear introduced the concept to me in his book … More The Value of Automation
While budding spring surrounds us with hope, battles for survival still rage within. The heaviness is bitter and oppressive. It makes all life seem beautiful and delicate. The fragility within is like a suffocating, bitter early spring blizzard. It threatens to snap the cheerful buds, silence the chirping birds. During the bleak January, the following … More the Avalanche
When I follow that inward bent, Naturally crafted by Him above, It’s like a little fountain cracking, and burbling open. Warm appreciated gratitude for life Gentle, overflowing, Ripples down, Like anointing oil that trickles down, trickles down.
We have the Light, and that is enough. And though all light come from one Source, it shows up in many ways. Not all light is visible. Knowing that you also tread forth in the darkness keeps the fire burning in my heart, Fuels the spirit of keeping on, keeping on. Knowing a fellow pilgrim … More Light: The Fuel of Friends
The Darkness is there. It will always be there, As long as Creation exists. Darkness leads to dependence, Dependence on the Light. When asked, when ready, the Source sends forth the Light, Gives the lit Lantern to the seeker of goodwill. Then he, the pilgrim, the wanderer, the explorer rejoices. For now, with his lantern, and … More Times of Darkness: Dependence on the Light
Darkness is a time of wrestling. Darkness gives confidence to hidden things. They no longer hide, suppressed by light and merriment. Under the comfort of darkness, certain emotions creep up to the conscious mind, stand up, and say “Face us, we’ve been with you all along.” Light gives us courage; darkness exposes us for what … More Times of Darkness: Wrestling with Sadness
The workday over, I head for the car. The overwhelming burdens of the daily grind berate me through the building’s walls as I dare to leave them all behind. I open the car door, slip into the driver’s seat, start the car, pull away, and begin the long drive home. The 50-minute commute gets drearier … More Times of Darkness: The Sentinel’s Gift
As a child when I was all alone in darkness, my vivid imagination would conjure up heart-palpitating threats that lurked within shadows and lack-light. Now, as an adult, I occasionally feel the same. But the darkness I struggle with is often a different kind —sometimes an interior darkness that weighs down the spirit and feels … More Times of Darkness: Choices
Bridget Bryan 