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A Context for When Love Brings Us Home

Many of us live our lives seeking home.
We seek belonging,
within ourselves and with others.
We seek people that help us
to be both brave and vulnerable.

Many of us know that such seeking often leads to surrender.
We surrender to life.
We surrender to love that guides life.
Some of us wrestle with that along the way.

A context creates an exploration. And a few words. And a few invitations to dwell. Perhaps you will find insights new or affirmed. Thank you for reading and reaching back when inspired.

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Some Good News

I’m happy to share that I now have another poetry collection available, When Love Brings Us Home.

As it is with titles for my other books, this one “arrived.” So, expect a few poems with themes of home, love, return. This collection honors life with my Sweetheart Dana. Yup, we are late in life finds together. We’ve found and made home together over the last three years. These poems touch a universality — the yearning and celebration for a belonging together.

There are three sections to the book. 1) Companioning. 2) Old Fears, New Choices. And 3) Simplicity. I loved feeling these themes coming to me. I loved grouping poems to lift the significance of each.

Thank you for reading. And sharing. And reviewing if you are inclined. And supporting my artistry in words. Thank you for listening ears to read the lines and what is between them. Thank you for reaching back, if you are inclined. Thank you for supporting the journey in many of us, that is to discover, or claim home. In ourselves. And with others. And to delight in sweet company that redefines what home is.

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Community Connection Retreat

That’s what’s coming this week — a Community Connection Retreat. I’m happy for the invitation from Pastor Aaron Lauer (NGLI) to guide a day of retreat for 50 ish people.

We’ve themed the event — Connection, Courage, Compassion. I love getting a little more to the heart of it. People who care and want to care. People who want to feel an ease in working together. People who want to be moved by the spirit of it all.

We’ll explore what it’s like to be in religious life in South Florida. We’ll invite people to tell stories. Circle, Cafe, OS will shape our journey. And a kind and simple way of paying attention to each other, ourselves, our hopes, our worries.

What a treat to keep feeding and being fed by the journey of connecting humans in what we care about.

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Gifts of Circle - Question Cardsasd
Gifts of Circle is 30 short essays divided into 4 sections: 1) Circle's Bigger Purpose, 2) Circle's Practice, 3) Circle's First Requirements, and 4) Circle's Possibility for Men. From the Introduction: "Circle is what I turn to in the most comprehensive stories I know -- the stories of human beings trying to be kind and aware together, trying to make a difference in varied causes for which we need to go well together. Circle is also what I turn to in the most immediate needs that live right in front of me and in front of most of us -- sharing dreams and difficulties, exploring conflicts and coherences. Circle is what I turn to. Circle is what turns us to each other."

Question Cards is an accompanying tool to Gifts of Circle. Each card (34) offers a quote from the corresponding chapter in the book, followed by sample questions to grow your Circle hosting skills and to create connection, courage, and compassionate action among groups you host in Circle.

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In My Nature is a collection of 10 poems. From A Note of Beginning: "This collection of poems arises from the many conversations I've been having about nature. Nature as guide. Nature as wild. Nature as organized. I remain a human being that so appreciates a curious nature in people. That so appreciates questions that pick fruit from inner being, that gather insights and intuitions to a basket, and then brings the to table to be enjoyed and shared over the next week."

This set of Note Cards (8 cards + envelopes)  quotes a few favorite passages from poems in In My Nature. I offer them as inspiration. And leave room for you to write personal notes.

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Most Mornings is a collection of 37 poems. I loved writing them. From the introduction: "This collection of poems comes from some of my sense-making that so often happens in the morning, nurtured by overnight sleep. The poems sample practices. They sample learnings. They sample insights and discoveries. They sample dilemmas and concerns."

This set of Note Cards (8 cards + envelopes)  quotes a few favorite passages from poems in Most Mornings. I offer them as inspiration. And leave room for you to write personal notes.

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