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Fresh Starts | Big Shadows Blog
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Reflections on divine influence. September 2, 2012. New life sure is an attention-getter. When a co-worker on maternity leave recently visited the office, her newborn drew a crowd, each of us marveling at those tiny fingers and impossibly soft skin. The real draw, though, was what this baby represented: purity, new life, a fresh start. Are you longing for a fresh start? For instance, an article in today’s NY Times. And also quite different more layered, nuanced, and worldly. Hip Hop Yoga – neve...On iTun...
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April | 2015 | Big Shadows Blog
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Reflections on divine influence. Monthly Archives: April 2015. April 13, 2015. Gathered metrics for my doctor over the weekend on my broken heart. Wore a heart monitor for 48 hours. Wondering if the monitor will track the halfway point in my four-mile […]. Read Article →. Surrender to the Sea. Saving the special salt: why? Follow Blog via Email. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Internet Cat Video Film Festival. Blog at WordPress.com.
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broken bowls | Big Shadows Blog
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Reflections on divine influence. November 25, 2012. While in New York for a 3-day kirtan workshop with Krishna Das. I began thinking about bowls. Particularly the kind that are broken. I arrived just in time for the first kirtan, after a 20-hour drive in 27 hours. Because “KD” was legendary in the kirtan world, I had envisioned a room filled with yogis and otherwise enlightened beings. And perhaps, I thought, KD would glow. During the Saturday workshop all of us siting together, asking KD questions and l...
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Saving the special salt: why? | Big Shadows Blog
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Reflections on divine influence. Saving the special salt: why? December 27, 2013. Today three of us were talking about pink salt. Betsy mentioned that she kept her pink salt in a pot that Guillermo Cuellar. In my cupboard is a bottle of Himalayan pink salt that I’ve not yet opened, for the same reason. Betsy wisely advised us to eat our salt before it’s too late. I imagined being at death’s door and crying, “Wait! I can’t go yet. I haven’t tried the pink salt! I invite you to open your heart and your min...
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December | 2013 | Big Shadows Blog
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Reflections on divine influence. Monthly Archives: December 2013. Saving the special salt: why? December 27, 2013. Today three of us were talking about pink salt. Betsy mentioned that she kept her pink salt in a pot that Guillermo Cuellar had made. Guillermo said he had […]. Read Article →. Surrender to the Sea. Saving the special salt: why? Follow Blog via Email. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Internet Cat Video Film Festival.
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Wendy Fernstrum | Episcopal Spiritual Direction in Minnesota
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Episcopal Spiritual Direction in Minnesota. Lifting up the ministry of spiritual direction in the Episcopal Church in Minnesota. Storytelling, Imagination and Creativity: A Retreat for Spiritual Directors. List of All Spiritual Directors. Submit Payment (members only). Wendy’s artistic work is collected and exhibited nationwide. She recently received the 2016 Minnesota Book Artist Award. Wendy can be reached at 651-395-8275. Or via email at wendy@bigshadows.com. Wendy offers spiritual direction:.
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Heart Monitor Metrics | Big Shadows Blog
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Reflections on divine influence. April 13, 2015. Gathered metrics for my doctor over the weekend on my broken heart. Wore a heart monitor for 48 hours. Wondering if the monitor will track the halfway point in my four-mile run when I stopped at the cemetery and let out some heart-wrenching sobs. What will the data show when I hugged the other Wendy who took care of Val during his illness? How about when I sang my heart out at a kirtan with Wild Moon Bhaktas. Or watching Jody bond with a nearby sculpture?
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Radical Connectivity | Big Shadows Blog
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Reflections on divine influence. September 24, 2012. That’s a message I would likely hear, too, at the Episcopal church I attend most Sundays. The difference is that in my church, the message would be sandwiched between parables and prayers. It would be a message parsed by the priest from three biblical readings, which often seem to have nothing in common. As it turns out, the entire service, not just the music, took me to a different place that felt oddly familiar. From the beginning, when the senio...
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Feeling Love in the Dental Chair | Big Shadows Blog
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Reflections on divine influence. Feeling Love in the Dental Chair. August 26, 2012. We all need a place where we feel safe. Sometimes it’s real, other times it’s an imaginary place, or a hybrid of the two. This is the safe place I created while facing the fear of upcoming oral surgery. I was inspired by Sky Blue With Daisies. Who writes often about creating special places. In this case, I needed a transportable place I could visit while in the dental chair, facing bright lights. The assistant turned on m...