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06 Nov (Really) Accept Your Portion
Accept Your Portion A Sufi story: Long ago there was a man on a journey who had with him a loaf of bread. He declared, “If I consume this, I will die.” So God entrusted him to an angel, commanding, “If he eats the bread,...
09 Oct Telling Your Bigger Story
Telling Your Bigger Story My soul-colleague came to me this morning with a lot of anxiety and a great need for fundraising. I helped her see that she had only explored the tip of the iceberg of monies she needed. But how to help her...
05 Sep That One Thing
That One Thing Very often, I have been granted a future I could not have imagined. All I could see/know was “I want to go there, do that.” And the desire itself would pull me into my next level of growth or Spirit-blessedness. It only...
09 Jun Clarity Tool: “Chunking Up” A Big Project
“Chunking Up” A Big Project Recently, my child asked me for help studying for their first finals. (We homeschooled before this.) On the same day, a soul-colleague asked me to help her discern how to move forward with what felt like a zillion big projects...
14 Apr Means to Receive: An Interview with Wind Dance’s Leslie Milbourne
Leslie Milbourne is a soul-colleague from way back. She lives and works in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, where I lived for many years. She’s an educator at Wind Dance Farm and Earth Education Center, co-founded with her husband John Devine. Wind Dance just inaugurated its...
28 Feb G-d is in the Details
Can we fall in love with the details of our work? As a way of helping ourselves become more detail-conscious? (I prefer “detail-conscious” to “detail-oriented.”) Falling in Love with the Details Love is in the details.** Love of craft. Of self. Love of other. Love...
29 Mar How to Apply for Anything (Step 3 of 3)
This is our last post in a three-post series about applying for a grant, job, fellowship, etc. For Step One, click here. For Step Two, click here. Step Three decide whether you really want the opportunity and whether it is really right for you at this...
27 Mar How to Apply for Anything (Step 2 of 3)
Our second post in this three-post series about applying for a grant, job, fellowship, etc. For Step One, click here. For Step Three, click here. Step Two if possible, interview a relevant person at the source about the opportunity you’re applying for: be honest about...