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Aug 1, 2022
2 min

The 'More Than This'

In a recent conversation, I heard Dana Ganihar and Baruch Brenner describe prayer as, "where the this meets the more-than-this." I love...

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Ali

Dec 24, 2021
2 min

Midwinter

I had a thought last night, the end of the first day after the longest night, "What if last night really was the longest night?"...

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Nov 24, 2021
2 min

Shadows, Reflections

Walking at the water's edge one afternoon, I notice a crow. Having learned surprising things about crows, I have come to love and...

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Oct 29, 2021
1 min

Invitation

A few months into my first autumn in Oregon, so much is fresh. My familiars had been the Aspens, the sole proprietors of changing color...

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Oct 25, 2021
2 min

Innocent Tempest

All morning there has been talk of a storm coming. The changing sky affirms it. The blue brightness is shifting to a heavy purple/gray. I...

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Ali

May 8, 2021
2 min

Only Seven!

At the end of the work day, Wednesday, I was experiencing the weariness from feeling machine-like; disconnected from myself, and...

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Mar 8, 2021
3 min

I cant hear you, you're muted!

I have moved from my home of more than 20 years, two miles high in the Rocky Mountains, to the forested edge of the wild Oregon Coast. ...

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Dec 18, 2020
3 min

Landing

I have felt the ache of leaving Colorado, the highest town there, Leadville, the complete, naked adventure of Saint Georges, and raising...

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Jul 19, 2020
1 min

Morning musings

I am reading John O’Donoghue‘s book eternal echoes. “... there is a resonant heart in the depths of silence“ he says this in reference to...

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Mar 19, 2020
3 min

Don't Dock Yet!

This morning, I learned that "Quarantine", a term with which we are all becoming familiar, is a shipping term. The word has a root...

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Mar 2, 2020
3 min

Emerging from the Cave

It has been so long since I wrote on this blog, I don't remember the "me" who wrote last time. But I do know that I haven't had a way to...

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Ali

Sep 15, 2019
3 min

The Sincerity of Uncertainty

I am surprised to find the beginning chill of Fall to be comforting. My diagnosis became clear a year ago, as August turned to...

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Ali

Jul 4, 2019
2 min

Surprise

After a sluggish morning, ruminating on all the scary things that could be, and feeling all manner of weirdness in this body, I decided I...

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Ali

Jun 17, 2019
3 min

I'm here and awake. Just sayin'...

I want to be seen today. Up until now, I have kept my bald head covered, because of the cold, but also because it seemed to say,...

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Ali

Jun 2, 2019
3 min

shores and open water

I haven't known what to write, and hence have left many questions for my friends and support to guess about. I have been inarticulating...

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May 12, 2019
2 min

Steady

I remember when Hannah and Lara were young, we often went to the folks festival in Lyons Colorado. We would cool off in the St Vrain...

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Ali

May 5, 2019
2 min

Breathing Room

For three months, I have not had the pleasure of eating food. I have been fed by a feeding tube. I have been able to drink liquids, but...

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Ali

Apr 28, 2019
2 min

"From and Into"

I've gotten a few requests this week for an update. It's nice to feel your caring in that request.... a reminder that I am connected in...

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Ali

Apr 21, 2019
2 min

It was always there

Two weeks ago, this was a stick, a dry branch; brittle, seemingly empty of life after a winter that stripped its essence from view, sent...

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Apr 5, 2019
2 min

Crocuses!!

I've found great comfort in the power of Spring. You just cant argue with it! Stepping outside to find these amazing flowers which, by...

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