To Heal

If you are reading this blog, I suggest that you are on a healing path, whether you know it or not.  

Whether your healing is physical, spiritual, energetic, emotional, relational, financial, etc., etc., etc., etc.

We are on the path:

One day, one step, one moment at a time.
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Note to self:
Healing is not a straight line.

This is not the journey from bad-to-okay-to good-to-better-to best-to-done.
We are traveling a road, dear friends.  
And it is fluid, and it is curvy, and it is all over the place.
And we are on it.
And—there is
No done
On this path.
It’s not over yet.
Oh, that sounds familiar…

Not Over Yet.
Title of my last book.

Simple Strategies to Struggle Less 
And Savor More.
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I am of the Sturdy Constitution.
I always jokingly called it my Russian peasant stock.

Not a joke—a blessing.
I have been profoundly fortunate with my health.
Whatever has come up, I have been able to move through.
Only now am I living into a life-altering 
Physical experience.

“Wreckage of the past.
That rapacious creditor.”*

Gratitudes beyond gratitudes,
Not life-threatening.

Yet again, blessings abound.

So much to learn.
So much to honor.
So much to listen to,
To attend.

Learning how
To ask for help.

Learning how
To rest.

Learning how
To allow the fluidity
Come and go.

I am tired of it and so ready to be done.

Yet I am certain—
Befriending rather than exiling 
Is the way.

So, I learn, as best I can.
I listen, as I am able.
I make remarkable and obvious mistakes.
And learn more.

And on it goes.
Life in a body.
Life in an aging body.

A good life
In
A
Good
Body.

I am blessed.

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Dear Friends, what is the nature of your healing journey?  What are you learning?

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The Weight—Playing for Change

Look at these faces.  People from around the world, this glorious world of ours.  Making music.  Creating harmonies.  Individuals coming together, in the healing journey of music, from individual to collective liberation.

I loved this song 50 years ago.  I love it perhaps more today.