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What’s Your Conversational Legacy?
“Melissa, someone could become enlightened watching a piece of trash roll past them.” These were the provocative words of the guiding teacher at the meditation center where I practice. At the time, his words felt a bit irreverent, but they lingered with me. My fourth-grade teacher was the first to say, “Melissa, you have a…
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The Myth of Certainty
What is your relationship with uncertainty? Like a well-orchestrated square dance, uncertainty weaves the ring of our life with its favorite dance partner, discomfort. Some days, we are called to turn our back on it and “do- si- do.” Other days, we take hold of it and proudly “promenade.” Yet other days, we are invited…
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Across the Bridge of Self Reflection
One of the most profound gifts of insight I have received in this lifetime came through a 26-year career in picture framing. Day after day, each design session revealed the same truth. A single work of art could be seen and experienced differently based entirely on the colors and textures you surrounded it with. And…
