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Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Posted on November 24, 2025
in #Reading Poetry, Being in Nature, Creativity, Spirituality
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It is said, the common characteristics of individuals who live in mountains, near rivers or oceans, in the wilderness and love to spend time in nature overlap with the traits of those who call themselves spiritual. These traits are kindness, peacefulness, compassion, and contentment with what is. These folks do not criticize or judge. They have motivating and kind words for others, and operate with an intention of making the world a better place.  One may ask, why is this so? What has nature to do with spirituality? Spirituality relates to people’s emotions and beliefs rather than their thinking or physical self and surroundings. Upon closer analysis six spiritual themes emerge: feeling of connection with something more than oneself, inner vibrancy, presence, joy, gratitude, and compassion. The data shows that those...

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Thursday, November 13, 2025

Posted on November 12, 2025
in #Masterpieces of World Art, Creativity, Spirituality
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A photograph of a great work of art is a mere memory. In no way can it have the same impact as an in-person encounter with the original artwork. I experienced this when we visited the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence, Italy. I had seen the reproductions of Michelangelo’s marble statue of David but was clueless about how I would react to that masterpiece. A kilometer from the museum, in the Piazza della Signoria, stands a statue of David that I mistook to be the original. The resemblance was uncanny. I looked at it from all sides, appreciating the work, but I did not feel its power – the youthful beauty or the vigor written about in essays that I had read for its preparation.  Then we entered the museum where we were magnetized by many works of Michelangelo....

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Thursday, October 16, 2025

Posted on October 15, 2025
in Creativity, Meditation, Reading, Writing
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Once you dedicate yourself to something you feel passionately about, when follow your calling, the universe listens. It augments the skills required for you to do that you deeply desire to do. So stay in touch with your Authentic Self and pay heed to its whispers.   I experienced the guidance of my Inner Self in the spring of 2009. For years, I had been meditating, journaling and writing alone at home. I had reaped the benefits of these two practices in heaps and wanted to share them with other writers who were struggling with isolation and dithering before the creative flow would stream forth. At the same time an urge to invite writers to meditate and write together repeatedly nudged me.  I hesitated. What would I say? Who would want to meditate...

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Thursday, June 12, 2025

Posted on June 11, 2025
in #Reading Poetry, Creativity, Imagination, Reading
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In Praise of PoetryPoetry grows on us. Reading poems aloud can turn into an enjoyable exercise, but more importantly, it helps refine our thinking and enhances journaling. You may not want to become a poet but you learn to have a grasp on words and how they have power to stir deep feelings and emotions in you that you may not have experienced before.  Reading poetry is a private, intimate experience. It widens our emotional space by stirring self-examination. It helps us deal with paradoxical emotions we don’t understand. Poems have messages that speak directly to us. When a poem links with our heart, it feels like the poet has shared a secret. The relationship between the poet, the poem, and the listener inspires awe and delight. A boy reading sitting...

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Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Posted on April 7, 2025
in Creativity, Daily Reflections 2025, Imagination, Reading
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Whether reading for pleasure or personal growth, what you enjoy depends on your interests and experiences. What you choose to read is as unique as what you enjoy eating or wearing. When you select a book to read, what are you seeking? Pleasure, growth, transformation? It is not what you choose to read but what happens to you when you are absorbed in reading – that pleasurable feeling of forgetting who and where you are, temporarily experiencing life through someone else’s perspective! I read to be entertained, to learn, to adventure into unknown worlds where my heart is slashed, where my guts are punched, or a brick falls on my head. With each book I read, my emotional and intellectual sensibilities emerge and deepen. In 2003, a group of doctors in Wales...

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Day 360, Monday, December 30, 2024

Posted on December 29, 2024
in Creativity
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Reflections Inspiration The final morning of our arduous yet fulfilling, calming, heart-widening year-long journey has arrived. Tomorrow we return to where we started, but with our minds sharpened and hearts wide open. I hope the year provided you perspectives on every significant aspect of your life: physical, emotional, intellectual, creative, and spiritual. It underlined how fundamental regular writing, reading, and spiritual matters are for your well-being, and how important emotional bonds are in familial relations and friendships. You have finished reading the book. That was the first rough look. Now you may start all over again. From tomorrow, explore the gift of each day as it unfurls, partly as you know and partly in some other way. But one thing is certain – the habits of meditation, journaling, reading, writing, and walking have now become...

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Day 309, Saturday, November 9, 2024

Posted on November 8, 2024
in Being in Nature, Creativity, Travel
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Reflections Good morning friends! Do you know of a friend or an event that relates nature and people? Someone you know who lives in the mountains, near a river or in the woods? If not perhaps today's post inspires you to write a short story about it. Inspiration Natural landscape can absorb you in its majesty, shake you up with its exquisite beauty, and spew you out transformed. This has happened to me over and over again in U.S. National Parks. Many individuals report feeling connected to the sacred through nature. Were you aware that regions with higher levels of natural amenities have lower rates of adherence to religious organizations? Mountains, hills, lakes, beaches, coastlines, forests, and pleasant weather all contribute to the powerful spiritual effects on people’s behavior who live close by. Spiritual relates to...

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Day 307, Thursday, November 7, 2024

Posted on November 6, 2024
in Being in Nature, Creativity, Travel
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Reflections Magnificence of nature and magnificent art, music, dance-drama performances turn me speechless. Words lose their meaning. Coming from a writer, this is a significant declaration. In silence, my eyes well, heart hurts (in a good way) and my ego self dissipates. I merge into what I'm beholding as the matter turns into spirit. The object can be as small as a flower or a bonsai arrangement. Or as marvelous as Michelangelo's David. Inspiration A photograph of a great work of art is the mere memory of the original. In no way can it have the same impact as an in-person encounter. I experienced this when we visited the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence, Italy. I had seen the reproductions of Michelangelo’s marble statue of David, but was clueless about how I would...

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Day 305, Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Posted on November 4, 2024
in Creativity
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Reflection We are perpetually embraced and nourished by sounds and sights. The continuous film running in the mind about the stories of past or future keep us from living in the sensuous gifts of the present. We don’t accept the invitation to good listening or good seeing until we are made aware of these. So awaken to your hearing the way you return to your breath when thoughts abduct you from the focus. When you give yourself entirely to hearing, passing thoughts are desperate to occupy the mental space. They want to bring the misery back. They grope and gasp. They are impediments to peace and tranquility of the present moment. Listen mindfully to the sounds and watch the thoughts melt away. Simply be aware of the "soundscape" with silences punctuating the sounds....

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