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Day 327, Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Posted on November 26, 2024
in Being in Nature, Creativity, Journaling, Meditation
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Reflections Inspiration A fine balance of intellectual knowledge and emotional experiences has the power to change you physically and spiritually. When you honor your traumatic experiences, your pain, your hurt through creativity – journaling, meditation, reading, writing, painting, singing, dancing – your body changes, as does your posture, gestures, and facial expressions. Let your body make friends with your mind by working intimately. When you are absorbed in creativity, the body, mind, and heart work in unison. A mixed feeling of pleasure and peace circulates through your whole self, so much so that a person working beside you can feel the current of your creative aura. Not in a mood to create? Then integrate the scattered attention, emotions, and sensations by taking a long warm shower. Or send loving attention to a family member,...

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Day 322, Friday, November 22, 2024

Posted on November 21, 2024
in Being in Nature, Journaling, Meditation & Journaling at Ashby Ponds, Reading, Travel, Writing
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Reflections Inspiration How do you know what you are passionate about? How do you know what a “fire in the belly” feels like? For me it was attempting to answer the primordial human questions: Where did I come from, What is the purpose of my life, and Where will I go after I die? It was sheer curiosity and a fear of death. I discovered some answers in making art, getting deeper into writing, finding my mentor friend within me, and traveling around the country and the world. Those experiences settled my mind, expanded my heart, thinned my ego. I was wholeheartedly devoted to them, and they turned into my passions, my ecstasy, my life. When the feeling of wonder and awe passed through me, it was as if dopamine coursed through my nerves. It encouraged me...

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Day 319, Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Posted on November 18, 2024
in Being in Nature, Creativity, Reading, Travel, Writing
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Reflections Inspiration If you haven’t experienced the depth of awestruck moments, you are a breathing body merely pumping blood. Your mind goes everywhere you don’t want to go. But making or appreciating art, reading, writing, and travel make you realize you are more than your body. You realize you are capable of experiencing aesthetic delight and peak moments of spirituality. These may be transient but they deepen and heighten the quality of your life. You know how you can glimpse divinity within you. You also know your imagination has no limits. What I’m saying may inspire you, even magnetize you to the practice, but at the back of your mind remain the questions of how to pay the rent, buy food, or perhaps attend to an ailing family member. You are tethered to...

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Day 316, Saturday, November 16, 2024

Posted on November 15, 2024
in Creativity, Nonverbal Activities
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Reflections There is always something to be thankful for! Inspiration I’m grateful to my body and mind for my life.I’m grateful to my parents for my childhood.I’m grateful to my husband for a lifetime of love and companionship.I’m grateful to my children for maternal love they stir which blossoms in my heart.I’m grateful to my friends, the Mindful Writers and Creators for their gracious presence in my life, for strengthening and helping me spread in expanding circles my life's Calling. In my seventh decade of life, I certainly think of my death. But I can’t emphasize enough the awe I feel for getting an opportunity to live this wonderful life. I know and hear all kinds of people within the country and all around the world who have suffered and are suffering. I may not have...

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Day 315, Friday, November 15, 2024

Posted on November 14, 2024
in Creativity
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Reflection Inspiration Love – whether it be romantic, maternal, or friendship – works as a soothing balm on the deep fear caused by the awareness of death. In the snug bosom of my parents’ love, I was unaware of my own mortality. With the caring of my family and comfort of my home, I was clueless about life’s temporariness. By the time I got married to the love of my life, I was conscious of my own demise but could easily put that thought at the back of my mind. Death was something that happened to others – old and sick people. My husband’s love made me forget the ephemerality of life, and in his company, I keep my death at bay. Through the love of our daughters and grandchildren, I feel that I...

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Day 14, Thursday, November 14, 2024

Posted on November 13, 2024
in Meditation
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Reflections Inspiration . . . As a writer or a reader, you go through the portal that carries you to the world of words and books. This world has the power to obliterate your worldview, crack you open, transform you, and then revive you, changed. There have been times when I have finished reading a book, closed its covers and uttered, “I can see now. I found myself. Wow!” All my life I have searched for purpose and meaning. What I have discovered with each “wow” is for me to keep changing and wondering. The meaning of life depends on your purpose. What is your calling? When you "hear" the call, take it to your heart, don’t do it for the fruit or the award. Just "follow your heart" let allies help you...

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Are You Mindful of Your Life?

Posted on July 3, 2023
in Journaling
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You do what you do but have you begun work on the most important project of you life? Your own life--the project without which none of the other projects would matter. The second half of your life is one of the greatest projects you will ever complete. Look at the photo in which you were half the age you are now. What has changed for the better, what has remained the same, what would you like to change? Photos: Pittsburgh's International Folk Festival (The booth constructed by my husband, Manoj and mural painted by me) ...

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Your Hero/Heroine’s Journey

Posted on November 13, 2022
in Journaling
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By writing 250-500 words each morning, in a public forum, you can experience a hero’s journey.Here’s how it works:1. You, as a writer are merrily going on your daily routine. (Ordinary World)2. An invitation arrives to be a guest host at Online Mindful Writers Group (OMWG). (Call for adventure)3. You don’t want to do it. It makes you feel nervous and uncomfortable. You don’t trust you have time to do it or are worthy of the task. (Refusal of the call)4. An inner voice (or an outer mentor) tugs, you can do it!5. Hesitatingly you agree. (Crossing the threshold)6. Thoughts race in your mind, which topic would I choose. As you write a rough draft your hand trembles. (Tests)7. The golden thread of the Writing Meditation Practice guides you. (Allies)...

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Invitation to Host OMWG 2023

Posted on October 18, 2022
in Journaling
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Dear Writers, Would you like to join Mindful Writers and Poets who plan to host Online Mindful Writers Group at https://tinyurl.com/MindfulWriters in 2023? ONLY THREE SPOTS LEFT: Jennifer D. Diamond January Deborah Catanese February Denise Weaver March Donna Lucas April Lorraine Bonzelet May Madhu Bazaz Wangu June Mike Morley July August September Fritze Roberts October November Amy Baverso December As there are only three spaces left, pick one of the remaining months before it is too late. Let me know by commenting below or massage me. I asked the 2022 hosts, “In what way has hosting OMWG been beneficial to you? Here are some of the responses: Deborah Catanese:I find writing for OMWG of like-minded writers to be expansive in that it makes me strive for excellence, soothing in that giving to this group always results in returned support and incentive, and satisfaction in knowing I...

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Honored Guest Hosts Finalized

Posted on April 12, 2022
in Journaling
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I am delighted to share the complete list of the honored guest-hosts (writers, artists, poets, film makers, editors) who are leading OMWG in 2022! Jennifer D. Diamond (January) Deborah Catanese (February) Lorraine Bonzelet (March) Gloria Muhly Baer Bostic (April) Stephanie Keyes (May) Lisa Hering (June) Shahrukh Husain (July) Madhu Bazaz Wangu (August) Hilary Hauck (September) Wende Dikec (October) Jennifer D. Diamond (November) Fritze Roberts (December) 2022 will the most fascinating year to date. If you are interested in leading the group for a month in 2023 please email or message me. Thank you so much in advance! With love, Madhu ...

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