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Words - Create

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"Each day, our tribe of language holds what we call the world together. Yet uttering of the word reveals how each of us relentlessly creates. Everyone is an artist. Each person brings sound out of silence and coaxes the invisible to become visible." Anam Cara John O'Donohue Prologue xv :::::::: '...coaxes the invisible to become visible." What are you creating with your words? Do you imagine the words you speak as power filled entities of magic, creating the world you inhabit? Do you fill your conversations with filler words, to enhance the conversation? Do you construct your responses or do you allow the words to flow from you? Is this true for you always? OR is it dependent upon company and context? You may or may not have noticed how lazy some can be with their language, with their conversations, as if the editing or filtering or thinking has been switched off; for me - this is very telling of their world, of how they live, and wh

Yes. It's winter. Resistance is futile

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A gentle bit of unsolicited advice, stop wishing your life away. This thought was triggered today as I saw yet another post on FB wishing for summer to hurry up and get here. Stop wishing for and "being ready for summer" When we are in resistance to what is (winter), struggle arrives for us. Winter is here. In most parts of Canada or at least where I live we will be in winter until March, with the last flakes of snow leaving us in April. What if you sink into what is. The cozy feel of the long deep nights. The silence a fresh snow fall brings The crisp orange and pink sunrises The large blue sky when the sun is shining as the temperatures drop even further What if you created an ease about your day What if you had a stillness in your body which would mimic the earth, be with the nature around you What if you became the next level of quiet What if you expressed your stillness through wonderful words, either through what you r