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Category Archives: True Stories
Frog
What is that? Who are you? WHERE ARE YOU? In a storm drain in the rain your cry clears the sky this thunder is coming from down under. THERE YOU ARE! do you need help getting out? Ah, I see, … Continue reading →
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Tagged animals, art, bullfrog, eco-spirituality, frogs, gratitude, ink brush meditiation, interfaith, interspirituality, love, nature, poetry, rain, salvation, spirituality, Storm, storm drain, sumie, tao, weather, zen
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Don’t you sea?
It was a day like any other day when everything changes and you can’t sea it. did you sea the sun rise? The finned swimmed, and the sun rose high in the sky and fell into the water to play … Continue reading →
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Tagged art, blessings, dolphins, earth, eco-spirituality, evolution, faith, fish, grace, ink brush meditiation, interfaith, interspirituality, love, moon, nature, sea, sea life, spirituality, sumi-e, sun rise, sunrise
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An escape to freedom
Today a bird came to my window. I watched her from inside, but I did not understand what she was saying through the glass. So she flew in, through the open door – and window by window showed me my … Continue reading →
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Tagged anxiety, bird, birds, doors, freedom, ink brush meditiation, ink brush painting, interfaith, interspirituality, love, nature, palm warbler, religion, spirituality, theology, windows
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Anger
I open the door. There twin shadows fight Each one reacting to some slight perceived in an instant reacted to from ancient ancestral wounds of mine and home Hiss and spit yowl and puff till a peacemaker arrives and the … Continue reading →
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Tagged animals, black cat, cat, cat fight, cats, depression, faith, ink brush meditiation, ink brush painting, peace, peacemakers, spirituality, tao, zen
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Peace be with you.
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Tagged Christianity, communication, faith, ink brush meditiation, ink brush painting, listening, love, nature, non-violence, pace e bene, religion, spirituality, St. Francis, tao, theology, wolf, zen
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How to help.
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Posted in Blessings, Quandaries, The Now, True Stories
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Tagged animal asisted crisis response, animal assisted therapy, animal chaplaincy, animals, brush painting, dog, dogs, ink brush meditiation, poodle, presence, spirituality, tao, theology, zen
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Discussions
I watched a cardinal and a jay on a fence. They were upset. I do not know why. but I listened anyway. They flew away. The fence stayed. perhaps it was only a perch, and I am the one with … Continue reading →
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Tagged birds, boundaries, cardinal, cardinals, fence, flight, fly, freedom, ink brush meditiation, listening, nature, spirituality
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Squirrel on a post
Or for the metaphoric literalist
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Tagged blogging, ink brush meditiation, literalism, metaphoric, nature, pundamentalist, religion, spirituality, squirrel, tao
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Pat
In her sleep, she reached out and gave her friend a pat on the head. and the nightmare stopped. Comfort is touching.
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Tagged cat, Cavalier King Charles, comfort, dog, ink brush meditiation, ink brush painting, spirituality, touching
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Bird?
WHAT IS THAT BIRD DOING IN HERE? Some people act like they’ve never seen anyone fly. Just jealous, I guess. Don’t they know they can fly too?
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Tagged aviation, bird, flying, spirituality, travel, you can fly
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