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Getting Untangled: What My Dog Teaches About Grace
Glimpse Ahead: Sometimes the most profound teachers walk on four legs. In this reflection, I explore what my dog Dahlia has taught me about getting unstuck when life’s leash gets wrapped around our legs. Her graceful approach to untangling offers insights about patience, movement, and the soul’s response to being caught.
Dancing Out of the Tangle
I’m hiking a trail with Jaxyn and Dahlia, my two Springerdoodles, tethered together on their dual leash system. Inevitably, as we navigate roots and rocks and the occasional interesting smell that demands investigation, the leash finds creative ways to wrap itself around legs, under bellies, and through the spaces between eager paws.…
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Becoming and Being: The Motion Within the Moment
Glimpse Ahead: Becoming isn’t just a steady march toward something new. Being and becoming move together, not as separate states, but in partnership. Each shapes the other along the path. Becoming reveals itself in presence, in what we notice and in each small choice. Being and becoming mirror the dance between where we are and who is already emerging. Even small shifts carry us closer to the self unfolding within.
Trailhead Invitation
I headed out inviting thoughts about being and becoming. My first goal was simply to appreciate being out in nature.…
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The Empty Hook
It’s often what isn’t there that speaks the loudest.
Moment on the Map
This photo captures a memorable moment that has lingered as a personally meaningful image for many years. The sky is awash in gentle sunset tones, with a cloud opening as if to welcome possibility. Dark trees border the scene like guardians, letting the light spill upward. At the center stands a lone shepherd’s hook, empty, curved, simple, silhouetted against the open sky. Something once hung here and will again. But not now. The hook is between what was and what may be.…
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Affirmations That Respect the Trail: Where You Are Matters As Much As Where You’re Going
Glimpse Ahead: Some affirmations soar too far ahead. Others whisper gently from where you stand. Here, you’ll discover a soulful approach to affirmations that are grounded, truthful, and aligned with the rhythm of real transformation.
Honest Affirmations Support Inner Movement
Some affirmations aim to inspire you, boost your belief, and help you grow into a new self. But sometimes, instead of lifting us up, affirmations can leave us feeling more disconnected. It is like trying to convince yourself you’re standing on the mountaintop while still lacing your boots in the parking lot.…
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Soulfulness: Living with Depth, Meaning, and Inner Radiance
Glimpse ahead: Soulfulness is a way of being. It’s our lived connection to meaning, presence, and the true self. It’s more than a feeling. It’s a path shaped by core principles that guide how we move through life with awareness, integrity, and depth. In this reflection, you’ll explore those guiding principles and how Soulfulness reveals itself through quiet signals of alignment, soul signals like resonance, compassion, and a sense of deep understanding. These principles aren’t fixed ideas but living invitations. They can be nurtured through intentional practices. This is the beginning of a deeper journey, one that unfolds through conscious steps and the choices we carry with care along the way.…
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Three Kinds of Stones: What Hinders, Grounds, and Guides Your Journey
Glimpse Ahead: The trail we walk is never just about distance. It’s shaped by what we notice, what we carry, and what we choose to mark. Stones are not just obstacles in our path, they are meanings, memories, and messages. They’re weathered by time and transformed by presence. In this reflection, I explore the soulful symbolism of Stones: what we carry, what we stumble over, and what we place with intention. And maybe, you’ll notice that the stones beneath our feet are also within us.
When the Trail Speaks in Stones
You’re walking a trail you’ve never taken before.…
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What We Carry, How We Move: A Soulful Reflection on Steps and Stones
Glimpse Ahead: Every path begins with a step, sometimes chosen, sometimes unconscious. In this reflection, we explore the power of steps: the movements we make in response to what we carry, and how each step shapes the terrain of becoming. Steps are more than motion. They are moments of presence, habit, reaction, resistance, and growth. Whether you’re sprinting forward or pausing, you are moving.
Every Journey Has a First Step
I was daydreaming, driving home on a snowy evening, attentive to the road but zoning out at the same time. And it struck me, one of those roadworthy epiphanies that slips in through the side window of the mind.…
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Spontaneous & Latent Wisdom: What you know that you don’t know you know
Glimpse Ahead: Not all wisdom arrives with thunderclaps or shining revelations. Sometimes, it drifts in softly, a memory stirred by morning light, a hunch while walking the woods, a sudden stillness that feels like knowing. This piece invites you to explore those moments of awareness, both the spontaneous sparks and the deeper roots of latent understanding that dwell beneath the noise. What arises when you pause long enough to listen?
Each of us carries wisdom that lives beneath the surface of our conscious mind. Some of it is innate, some hard-earned and then forgotten, and some is simply buried under the noise of modern life.…