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What if you are already whole, complete and perfect?
With nothing to fix or improve.
Just the desire to open.

This week I had a dream that I was diagnosed with terminal cancer. What unfolded in the dream was profound. I found myself looking at my life and making radical decisions, giving myself permission to do and be all these things I had dreamed of, but never done.

In my dream, the decisions were effortless and clear. My priorities and desires sparkled. And the clutter of my life fell aside.

As I awoke, I lay in the stillness so struck by this dream — my pounding heart reminding me I’m alive.

Why is it that a terminal diagnosis would give me permission to set up my life as I desire? Why can’t I just live that life now?

Kinda makes you wonder what stories are really playing out under the surface of our awareness. Thank God for this wakeup call!

Today, give yourself permission to sparkle – breathe fully into every moment and bask in its joy and wonder. Look tenderly into your heart and ask, “Who am I inspired to be? What actions today will reflect that?”

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I awake inspired and changed. My life feels different. Things are shifting — in this world, and in me. We are not the same today as yesterday. We will be different tomorrow. How exciting. I’m living the ribbons of change and loving the mini shifts I am observing in my body, heart and mind. I keep asking, “What’s next?” And the answer is always the same. Keep exploring a new dawn.

What about you? What’s changing in you? Can you feel the shifts happening all around us?

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As I enjoy this Thanksgiving Day, I am struck with my journey over the past few months. I’ve been quiet about it because putting it in words seemed to take away. Some things can’t be said, only felt and lived into. But, I feel new. My thoughts feel new. And my perspective? Ever so clear.

Oh, to be present to this… to have moved past the intellectual conversation and actually BE a practising student of Source Energy.

And to be oh-so-grateful for the journey.

Happy Thanksgiving to my Canadian kindred spirits!
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Hello my dear friend, The Naked Tree. I return to you. It’s been a long while since I’ve visited. I thought I didn’t need you anymore… that I had nothing more to say here… that perhaps sharing my vulnerability here was actually helping me hide from my life.

I know that sounds complicated. It felt that way. But I return with heart-filled renewal and enthusiasm.

Your leaves are changing colours, soon to be shed. Are you excited? I am. Golden moments, my friend, golden moments.

Today is International Peace Day and I share this video with you. Time and time again, I learn that peace, joy and all the other fabulous emotions we desire are inside jobs. We cannot find peace in the world from inside a body of chaos. Have you noticed?

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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life. — John Burroughs

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This is where you shall find me for the next 10 mornings — on my dock, greeting the sun, taking in its energy, connecting with its essence, recognizing our sameness.

Nature teaches us so much about ourselves. It nourishes. It delights.
It calls us home.

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We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Henry David Thoreau

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pretty flower I be
blossoming I am
steps I take
paths I walk
love I give
light I live.