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Tag Archives: sleep
Nap
Naps are as essential – As meditations… As prayer… Trust your teachers, Nap. Dream. You can not awaken without taking care of your sleep.
Posted in The Now
Tagged animal assisted chaplaincy, art, awaken, black cat, cats, daily practice, dogs, eco-spirituality, Elizabeth Teal., enlightenment, ink brush painting, interspecies spirituality, interspirituality, lessons, Liz Teal, love, naps, nature, poetry, sleep, spiritual direction, spirituality, sumi-e, teachings
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Princess?
(Preparing for a royal visit – chests were emptied, mattress pads and quilts were washed, mended and stacked.) No princess and the pea was She – She was a Queen. and slept soundly.
Posted in Tao Cats, The Now
Tagged art, cats, cleaning, company, guests, holiday visitors, humor, illustration, inspiration, life with cats, mending, observations, overnight guests, poem, poetry, princess and the pea, queen, quilts, rice paper, sleep, sweet dreams, washing, watercolor painting
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Pillow talk
i looked over longingly at the bed, but still had work to do… i almost thought i could hear the pillow calling – but someone had answered first…. and yet She still had one ear cocked – as if to … Continue reading
Posted in Blessings, God's dog
Tagged care giving, Elizabeth Teal., exhausation, hard day, ink brush meditation, Liz Teal, long haired chihuahua mix, love, mysticism, naps, papillion cross, papillion mix, pillows, poem, poetry, self care, sleep, sumi-e, toy dog
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centering prayer
construction trucks go beep beep beep. awakening me from delightful sleep and the house is shaking from bottom to top – oh when will this road work every stop! then head to toe into myself i must go, and find … Continue reading
Posted in The Now
Tagged cat enzo, construction vehicles, Elizabeth Teal., enzo, feline, humor, ink, meditation, poetry, purr, rice paper, road work, silly poetry, sleep, sumi-e
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solace
into the circle of sleep, dream into the circle of dreams, wake. the world is round. all things are possible.
Posted in The Now
Tagged dog, dogs, dream time, dreams, eco-chaplaincy, eco-ministry, eco-mysticism, eco-spirituality, hope, ink brush painting, interspecies spirituality, meditation, mysticism, poetry, possiblities, sleep, spirituality, sumi-e
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Solace
overcome by grief and despair, i take to bed, to get some comfort there – thinking it would come in the shape of dreams instead it gently jumped on me with four paws, then four more – and gentle solace … Continue reading
Posted in The Now
Tagged all lives matter, animal assisted chaplaincy, black lives matter, calico cats, cats, dogs, dreams, eco-chaplaincy, grief, ink brush painting, justice, love, mourning, naps, pain, poetry, police lives matter, poodle, sacred activism, sleep, spirituality, standard poodle, sumi-e, unity
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Cuddles
Somedays we all need to be held in the paws of the mother, and things will look better in the morning, or after a nap, of if you blink.
Posted in Tao Cats, Winged wisdoms
Tagged blessings, cats, comfort, eco-chaplaincy, eco-ministry, eco-spirituality, interspecies spirituality, mother earth, naps, nature, poetry, sacred mother, sleep, spirituality, sumi-e
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Illuminate the darkness
Out like a light they shine and illuminate the darkness.
Posted in zen dog
Tagged animals, children and pets, darkness, depression cures, dog, dogs, dream, eco-spirituality, faith, hope, illuminate, ink brush meditiation, interfaith, interspirituality, love, nature, poetry, Should dogs sleep in bed?, sleep, spirituality, sweet dreams, tao, zen
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haiku cat
Tilted perspective sleep alone provides solace let love heal the world
Posted in Poems
Tagged cat, cats, healing, ink brush meditiation, love, sleep, spirituality
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