Tag: violence
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What Do You Mean I Create My Own Reality?!
I remember the first time I heard the notion that I create my own reality. I was 33 years old and had just been diagnosed with malignant melanoma. My co-worker and friend gave me the book, Conversations With God. My response after reading it was, “you think I chose to have cancer?!” Of course no one would choose…
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Touchy-Feely Never Killed Anyone
The news of the mass shooting in Las Vegas at the Country Fest struck me deep in my empathic center this morning. It has brought to mind a lot of thoughts and I need to get them out. As I was growing up I often heard, “you’re too sensitive” and “you’re too emotional”. They meant…
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Human Up!
The energy of the recent white supremacy rally in North Carolina has not eluded me. I have had no words to share…up until now. I read something today that felt like spiritual bullying or spiritual shaming and I intended to respond to it point by point. The article, was directed specifically at ‘white spiritual women’…
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It’s Not O.K.
It’s not. It’s just not O.K. this culture of violence that permeates our days like the gut wrenching stench of a garbage strike in the middle of August. This latest shooting, this morning, of Republicans practicing for a charity baseball game has done me in. I’m not a Republican. I’m not a Democrat. I’m not…