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Keep Leaping: 05/01/2012 - 06/01/2012
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Living Life With Compassion, Courage and Joy. Wednesday, May 2, 2012. It's been ages since I've written in this space. I've been tapping out short snippets on Facebook. And leaving it at that. Fewer words (if any) come to me when I ask myself what helps to support leaping into compassion, courage, and joy? My usual prompt when I sit to write). Perhaps I need a new prompt. I've been reading lots of other blogs and thinking - they have it covered - not much else to add. No - let me correct that. So - perha...
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Keep Leaping: Just Write
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Living Life With Compassion, Courage and Joy. Friday, June 8, 2012. And that's what I'm gonna do. This morning I walked out my back door, turned to my left and fell in love. My husband Tim is a passionate gardener. I often take for granted the perennial beauty he creates. But this morning - his roses finally won my heart and deepest appreciation. not only for their beauty - but for the man who nurtures them through all the seasons. So yeah, my therapist brain is connecting this to self-tending. Trusting ...
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Keep Leaping: 09/01/2011 - 10/01/2011
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Living Life With Compassion, Courage and Joy. Monday, September 26, 2011. Open Field of Thought. So often we come upon big ticket questions and concerns that seem to have no logical, linear answers. All considered options seem to jam us up even more. Answers (if and when they come) are muddled and all too familiar. It's like we're in a traffic jam of thinking where no thought seems to open up the congestion. At these moments, I find it helpful to imagine there is an open field of thought. I use the traff...
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Keep Leaping: 06/01/2011 - 07/01/2011
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Living Life With Compassion, Courage and Joy. Friday, June 24, 2011. I've been thinking alot about the idea of midlife as one of the more radical times of self-revelation. My birthday is coming up and I will be 59 - but it's more than that. I keep having dreams about knocks at my door and entering rooms from my past and throwing the windows wide open. I also happen to work with folks at midlife quite a bit. It's one of those laws of attraction things. So, as usual, I begin by asking questions:. Yet now&#...
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Keep Leaping: Taming Wild Mind
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Living Life With Compassion, Courage and Joy. Friday, February 1, 2013. What is wild mind? Any thinking/feeling that leads us into the rocks (crashing) and reeds (tangled up). After seeing the movie Argo (yeah, a while back - this blog entry started that long ago) - I was left with the question: How is it that emotions can take over so powerfully - that anger and hatred become our home base? From inner conflict to interpersonal blips to political violence - it all feels the same to me. So I don't go care...
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Keep Leaping: Radical Compassion
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Living Life With Compassion, Courage and Joy. Thursday, July 7, 2011. This morning I sat in my garden thinking about the idea of radical compassion. That's when the notion of cultivating compassion for all beings (even bees) kicked in. Yes, a very tall order and an idea that engenders heated debate. How can we have compassion for all beings - when all beings do not seem to engender compassion? Radical compassion is not for the faint of heart. It does require courage. Perhaps it is the most essent...So I ...
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Keep Leaping: The Spin Cycle of Life
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Living Life With Compassion, Courage and Joy. Monday, November 14, 2011. The Spin Cycle of Life. Monday morning is my usual time for writing. But for the past two mondays - no inspiration, no words. Sometimes when this happens, I use my will to push through and stay the course until the damn breaks and words begin to flow. Other days I just let the non-flow be, get up from my chair and walk by the water. I trust that something is gestating. Sometimes we breeze through the spin cycle, all balanced and hap...
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Keep Leaping: 01/01/2012 - 02/01/2012
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Living Life With Compassion, Courage and Joy. Monday, January 16, 2012. A Rant About Compassion. I just changed the tag line of my blog. I replaced the word CONFIDENCE with the word COMPASSION. I was compelled to do this; couldn't stop myself. Without a doubt, I believe that compassion is the sturdy foundation upon which wholehearted, confident, joyful LEAPING is supported. It just shoots out, unwilling to be denied. I'm sure everyone is getting tired of my compassion mantra. But - I'm not. To get really...
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Keep Leaping: 02/01/2013 - 03/01/2013
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Living Life With Compassion, Courage and Joy. Friday, February 1, 2013. What is wild mind? Any thinking/feeling that leads us into the rocks (crashing) and reeds (tangled up). After seeing the movie Argo (yeah, a while back - this blog entry started that long ago) - I was left with the question: How is it that emotions can take over so powerfully - that anger and hatred become our home base? From inner conflict to interpersonal blips to political violence - it all feels the same to me. So I don't go care...
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