Wowza – retreats are needed – that’s what I got from your responses to my Big Virtual Retreat Contest. It is a holy need. Sometimes in a “holy crap! I need a break” or in a “I’m full of holes, I’m ready for mending” or in a celebration of wholeness kind of way. All holy. [...]

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You know retreats rule. (At least, I hope you do. If not, trust me on this one.) They put the sparkle back in the diamonds on the souls of your shoes (sorry, been listening to a lot of Paul Simon lately). They give you a path back to the spring that burbles at the heart [...]

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I adore the movie “Frida.” I saw it for the first times a few weeks ago. It was like being in her head. While on acid. Which was probably what it was like to be in her head a lot of the time. It also made me jump up and down on the couch like [...]

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Wow, what a wonderful week. What fun to see the freedom created by remembering we don’t have to improve ourselves to be. We are. I found myself feeling like I was on retreat all week. I’d stop and ask myself, “Why this feeling?” Then I’d remember Freedom from Self-Improvement, and that I don’t have to [...]

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