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Wisdom in everyday life

depression

  • The Silence or Depression

    I live in Northern Minnesota and I have the great privilege to live with silence. Now, I realize this notion sends most people over the edge of reason. In this day and age, the phone provides constant contact for those who can not tolerate being alone in silence. Silence has become something we now have Read more

  • The review

    I just celebrated another birthday, Holy Shit, they come fast. Used to be 365 days between them, now what is it 6 weeks? Anyway…As part of my spiritual practice I spend some time during the weeks previous doing a review of a kind. I look back over the year and reexamine how the journey went. Read more

  • Still in-between

    We don’t often talk about how hard it can be to live in the northland. Depression can be a really good friend. The cold, the dark, the isolation, all handy to drown yourself in and this year has been especially hard. The winter has been endless and the hope of spring a figment of our Read more

  • walk in grace

    I do a lot of walking so I see a lot of things. I see the looks on peoples faces, I hear their conversations. I see which way they have their gaze. It feels like walking through everyone’s living room sometimes, I see too much. I have seen peoples private parts, yes I am talking Read more

  • resetting the clock

    We humans are experiencing burn-out. Its hot, the world is on fire and it’s making everything difficult. Tempers are flaring with the temperature and without tending to ourselves we will get hot under the collar spewing the excess heat accumulated in our souls on everyone we meet. Like the trash can, we too need to Read more

  • More tragedy, more faith

    I have not written in a while because my heart is broken from events that occurred within one months time. The last time I wrote it was about the death of my father. He had struggled with some physical issues and was tired of living in a body that he couldn’t get to work with Read more

  • manifesting evidence

    Showing my students how each of us manifests evidence is one of the best teaching tools I know. It is hard to dispute what is right in front of you especially if it’s right under your nose. When we look with heart-felt eyes we can see the hand of God at work in our lives, Read more

  • Pause

    To me the pause button is the most important function on the remote. I just need the movie or music to stop for a bit. I don’t need to start over. I don’t want to stop because restarting means trying to find where I was when I stopped. All I want is to pause mostly Read more

  • a new year, finally some movement

    This is what it looked like in Duluth when I left. A horror show of unending winter and solitary living and for me the impending depression of being locked in a house alone for months, months, and more months. Its beautiful there is no doubt but past the beauty is the awareness of what this Read more