letting go | letting go
Feb.07.2013
Sweet Sweet Surrender
By Bernadette A. Moyer
Surrender as in letting go of control and to yield to power. I am thinking about surrender in the sense of letting go and accepting that we are not in charge, there is a greater power. Our world and our existence here is bigger than just us. Not one of...
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Jan.23.2013
January 23
Frankie
“Why do I expect new leaves to grow on dead sticks?” I pleaded to my sponsor.
“Is that a ‘why do fools fall in love’, question?” she retorted.
“Oh, I suppose it is. I was doing so well having a ‘listen only’ relationship with someone...
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Jan.08.2013
Letting go comes in two flavors: “passive letting go” and “active letting go.”
One tastes like plain ol’ vanilla, the other Cherry Garcia: cherry ice cream with whole cherries and mega pieces of dark chocolate. Hmmm, well I know it’s nearing autumn and the temps are dropping as I write this, but...
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Oct.29.2012
This year’s contenders for the one word description of my garden—baked, thirsty and hungry— are misleading. It wasn’t a garden party year. The word I picked covers the year to date and any garden situation that develops, and is ignored, before the end of the year. It’s no surprise to my neighbors...
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Oct.23.2012
I am a dandelion stalk,barren and still stripped of its many wishes.
I let go of each wish, one by onereleasing my hold on its fantasy.
“Letting go is notthe same as giving up,”I remind myself as I stand taller, empty all the same.
Wishes are no more thandowny fluff floatingin the air until they...
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Aug.10.2012
The infant was wrapped loosely in a blanket. I held "her" in my arms, but she was barely responsive. As I went from place to place, she became lighter, more transparent.
I realized that I was losing her, she was going to become so light that I would not be able to hold her to the earth much longer...
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Jul.25.2012
Things are beginning to look up.
A few false starts,
a couple of U-turns
and we are finally headed in the right direction.
We were often brash and arrogant.
False in our assumption that our way was the only way to go.
We got lost and struggled to right our leaky, boat.
Lashing out...
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Jul.16.2012
"Your children are not your children, they are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you." ~ Kahlil Gibran
Transition time means taking stock, moving on, shedding false selves and re...
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Jul.13.2012
Summertime brings on projects. I vow every summer to be lazy, but as I sit and read I can sometimes hear my Mother's voice, "don't just sit there reading. Get up and do something."
So this past week I've taken on the monumentally boring task of shredding fourteen years worth of documents...
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Jun.27.2012
June 27
RECLAMATION ARTIST
I stand over the refuse can and peer in; I drive slowly past the piles of curbside discards. I have so much trouble accepting there is no reclaiming most of this ever-growing mass. There must be an alternate plan but I can’t see it...
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