When a friend was about to undergo a challenging surgery, she posted images of her “fingers crossed” on her Instagram. We realized that each of us has our own way of wishing/hoping/praying/sending energy during difficult times. Many of them involve hand signals.
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Mary Oliver’s Morning Poem starts our week with the recognition that it can be challenging to embrace even the simplest aspects of life that we ALL deserve. If we look around, we find that the goods were delivered despite our best efforts at self-sabotage. Brene Brown described it:
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In a recent New Yorker Talk of the Town, we came across this surprising image: a Japanese ukiyo-e print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi made in 1842 (from a show at the Japan Society). It’s called “Haysuhana Prays Under a Waterfall”. The idea knocked us out: of praying, meditating, thinking… just plain sitting… under a waterfall, for a…
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