Verbal Flow Archives

What We Leave

Last week, I woke to an Isolation Journals prompt from Joy Julliet Bullen asking me to consider a physical item left behind by a loved one, what it means to me, what this says about me. The irony was that I was already considering exactly that. 
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Pets and Our Essential Self: A Disarming Love

Last week I wrote of awe and wonder, of the extraordinary hidden in the ordinary, of a way of training our hearts to come ablaze to the absurd beauty of the natural world. Who better to write about, then, but the sweet animals, whose natural ability to rest in their essential being leaves me disarmed?
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Astonished by the Ordinary

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How to Contact Myself in an Emergency

A natural journey in life is to come to the contemplation of death. It is also a natural part of a yoga practice. Every practice, we are enabled to die to a multitude of forms. Every practice ends with a moment of death, the opportunity to honor the transitory nature of the body and perhaps even the subsequent rising into new life.
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On Living with the End in Mind

A natural journey in life is to come to the contemplation of death. It is also a natural part of a yoga practice. Every practice, we are enabled to die to a multitude of forms. Every practice ends with a moment of death, the opportunity to honor the transitory nature of the body and perhaps even the subsequent rising into new life.
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Packing

Let’s say I were going off on a trip I wasn’t sure when I’d be home from. What might I pack if I didn’t know when I’d return to my cache of possessions? What might you? I think about this question, posed in an Isolation Journal…
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Riding Waves

I have been an obsessive overthinker my whole life, which is one of the many reasons I write. Where else can all those thoughts go? Certainly they need a little space to move.
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The Joyful Paradox

When I think of living a life of joy, I do and I do not think of happiness. Both are true, I think. A great paradox. Happiness can offer joy, but is happiness the main ingredient to live a joyful existence? By this I mean, more specifically, does a joyful life mean we will always also be happy?

How to Create a Life

Last year, I beheld the start of the year from a slower, more tentative perspective than ever before, and because of this, I learned how special it is to start the year gently.