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• January 9, 2026
  9Jan2026

  "Holding the Light" by Stuart Kestenbaum

  Discovering this beautiful poem by Stuart Kestenbaum was a happy surprise. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

  Good ki!

  

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• March 1, 2025
  1Mar2025

  We Loved You Lorna

  

  My mom passed away recently. I've written about Lorna over the years, and some of my readers have met her. She lived a long and happy life. At 99, she was planning to make it to 100. 

  She didn't want to leave us. She was a mother. She identified with and valued that role above all the others in her long life, and she worried a lot about her five children. At the end we convinced her, I think, that she had done a wonderful job--raising us, modeling love throughout her life, and teaching us how to love and care for each other. We told her we would do that, and now she could rest. She heard us....

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• March 20, 2012
  20Mar2012

  Easier Than I Make It: Four Principles and a Gift

  

  A good friend gave me a book last week, thinking I might like it. The book is “Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion” by Jesuit Priest Gregory Boyle about his work with gangs in Los Angeles, CA. Reading the first chapters in the early spring sun this morning at Beach Pea in Kittery, Maine, I feel calm and centered and blessed.

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