Posts from the ‘Wonder’ Category

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  Spring deserves an “Ode to Joy”

  April 22nd, 2022 | 2nd Order Change, Foreboding Joy, Impermanence, Joy, Transformation, Uncategorized, Wonder | admin | Comments Off on Spring deserves an “Ode to Joy”

  Early this morning my son, Zachary Robert Wonders Dearing, asked me: “What one thing will you do today to bring yourself joy, mom?” My son knows my heart is heavy with worry for our world.  The war in Ukraine is breaking my heart.  The people’s fierce and undaunted bravery juxtaposed along side their country’s suffering and […]

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  Beginning Again, Again

  March 21st, 2022 | 2nd Order Change, Become Who You Are, Destiny or Become Who You Truly Are, Transformation, Wonder | admin | Comments Off on Beginning Again, Again

  For the Road to Santiago by David Whyte “For the road to Santiago,  don’t make new declarations about what to bring and what to leave behind.   Bring what you have.   You were always going  that way anyway, you were always  going there all along.”   No New Year’s Resolutions, as we traditionally think […]

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  The Wonder and Mystery of the “Negatives” in our Lives.

  June 19th, 2021 | Both/And Thinking, Transformation, Wonder | admin | Comments Off on The Wonder and Mystery of the “Negatives” in our Lives.

    I penned a version of this essay on Mother’s Day 2021.  I invite us to consider the idea of finding our way into appreciating the gifts hidden in our impossible life situations, those things we cannot change, but deeply wish we could.  To shift our gaze and adjust our narrative about our difficulties and […]

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  “Always we hope someone else has the answer, some other place will be better…

  December 24th, 2019 | Impermanence, Transformation, Wonder | admin | Comments Off on “Always we hope someone else has the answer, some other place will be better…

  “Always we hope someone else has the answer, some other place will be better, some other time, it will turn out … This is it.”    Pema Chodran Abiding truth.  This.   It recalls T.S. Eliot’s “Hope would be hope for the wrong thing” as he too, calls us to the Waiting.   the Being […]

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  Creating adult-adult relationships with your children

  April 5th, 2019 | Conversational Leadership, Destiny or Become Who You Truly Are, discovery, Real Conversations, Wonder | admin | Comments Off on Creating adult-adult relationships with your children

  I received a very late b’day card … Reasons I’m happy you were born, it read.  The sender is one of my children.  The 10 reasons written made me weep. I often receive other cards from my other child, post cards from travel destinations, thank you notes, etc. Both of these remarkable human beings treat me as […]

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