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Tossing and turning
Do they just love me because they are supposed to love me? After all, what kind of monster wouldn't love their daughter, sister, close...
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ESCAPING, & EMBRACING, SAMSARA
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Our responsibility
I had a conversation recently that really disturbed me. It was about sustainability. I was saying that I wanted to get more involved in...
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Human Revolution Through Compassion and Interbeing
I have become disillusioned with politics as a vehicle for change. The pendulum swing from one party's policies to the other is constant...
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Dear brothers and sisters on the Supreme Court,
It is hard to write this letter. It is even harder to refer to you as my brothers and sisters, a term I usually reserve for people I feel...
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My soul sends out search beams
In all directions Like a frozen firework Like a thousand beacons From a thousand lighthouses Slicing through salty air Above the roiling...
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Redemption
Maybe my plantar fasciitis, newly-flared up, is karma for the time I stole some shampoo and conditioner (and probably some nail polish)...
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The soulmate myth
I've been single for awhile. My mom keeps telling me that my person is out there, and I'll find him (she is convinced this person is a...
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My December Home
My family and I moved seven times from when I was born until I finished high school. That's seven different houses, seven different...
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Faith and Fascism
Faith is often presented as a virtue in our society. I think it could more accurately be understood as a vice. The term "faith" has two...
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ShadowBoxing July 15 2019
My uncle Steve Dalquist writes short essays and for a while, he read them out loud to be broadcast on his local radio station, KCAW in...
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Why
My mom is very conservative and very Christian and I'm very... not. We don't agree on anything. Although we have lots of conversations...
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To Jordan
I took my living body into the kitchen for some coffee that my functioning throat swallowed I took my breathing lungs on a morning jog...
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The Law of One, Buddhism, and Extraterrestrials
I recently finished reading a pretty "woo-woo" book that a friend let me borrow. It's called "The Ra Material: An Ancient Astronaut...
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On being "too much"
Recently, my friend asked me about how I've cut out dairy from my diet this month. He wondered if I was going vegan. I'm not there, at...
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On sending healing energy to the earth
The earth and her people are suffering. We all know this. COVID-19 has ravaged the entire planet, racism continues to claim innocent...
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