Follow Through Part 2
As I write the last blog of my 30 day challenge, I’m aware of the feeling of deep satisfaction I have. I overcame my tendency of...
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Patricia Thompson
- Feb 4, 2020
- 1 min
Doing Better
I love the moment when you realize that you’re dealing with a challenging situation differently than you would have in the past. You’re...
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Patricia Thompson
- Feb 3, 2020
- 1 min
Surrender and Wonder
The idea of surrender is often thought of as a negative thing, especially in a culture where achievement and winning is so very...
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Patricia Thompson
- Feb 2, 2020
- 1 min
Keep Asking
My amazing niece Molly Rose has always been a unique and forward-thinking person. She started a recycling program in grade school, played...
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Patricia Thompson
- Feb 1, 2020
- 1 min
The Prize
In her gorgeous book, Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert tells a story of a friend that had given up ice skating during adolescence, because...
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Patricia Thompson
- Jan 31, 2020
- 1 min
A Game Changer
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King Jr. The potential of this choice is...
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Patricia Thompson
- Jan 30, 2020
- 1 min
The Stick, Part Two
When I was studying the anatomy of breathing, I was delighted to read this: the first breath we take as we enter this world is the...
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Patricia Thompson
- Jan 29, 2020
- 2 min
The Rescue
A few years ago I was hiking, and came upon a huge desert tortoise, lying in the middle of my path. One of his back legs was twisted in a...
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Patricia Thompson
- Jan 28, 2020
- 1 min
The Stick
I have a wise and beautiful friend who spends a large part of each year at her home in India. She’s a meditator of more than 30 years,...
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Patricia Thompson
- Jan 27, 2020
- 1 min
Too Many Buttons
I was having a really bad day, and it seemed that every time I turned around, there was something else to feel frustrated about. I was...
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Patricia Thompson
- Jan 26, 2020
- 2 min
The Kettle
The collective noun for a group of vultures in flight is a kettle. It came to be, that one fall evening, I had a kettle of nearly 100 of...
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Patricia Thompson
- Jan 25, 2020
- 1 min
Old Stuff
I don’t want to hold onto old stuff...it‘s heavy, distracting, and painful. My mind however, has an entirely different opinion. It wants...
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Patricia Thompson
- Jan 24, 2020
- 2 min
On Driving.
A few years ago I watched how one small choice, in one small car, made with only partial attention, spiraled into a surprising and...
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Patricia Thompson
- Jan 23, 2020
- 1 min
I Knew
I knew there would probably be a day during my thirty day blog challenge where I would either be too busy, too tired, or too sad to blog....
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Patricia Thompson
- Jan 22, 2020
- 1 min
Eating vs. Feeding
My relationship with food has, for as long as I can remember, been complicated. Both comfort and escape have been provided, but something...
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Patricia Thompson
- Jan 21, 2020
- 1 min
Strength
When my best friend got sick, developed sepsis, and slipped into a coma, my whole world unraveled. She was an integral part of my life,...
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Patricia Thompson
- Jan 20, 2020
- 1 min
Within
I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days. -Hafiz We have a universe inside of us, a innerverse really, that we...
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Patricia Thompson
- Jan 19, 2020
- 1 min
A Conversation With Your Body.
This is what yoga is, a conversation with the only thing in your life that is truly yours...the wise body you live in. So we step on our...
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Patricia Thompson
- Jan 18, 2020
- 1 min
Killing Squirrels
A few years ago a fabulous woman came to my meditation class. When I asked everyone if they had any questions about meditation, she said...
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Patricia Thompson
- Jan 17, 2020
- 1 min
It’s not when you start...
I’ve been troubled lately by the realization that time is passing, and I’ve not yet started on the the hard work part of making my dreams...
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