December 7 , 2022 /

DAY SEVEN – A LARGER VIEW

As a contrast to the two previous days of details, we are now going to the 30,000 foot view and have a look at the bigger picture.  It may seem like a flip-flop from one extreme to the other.  In a test, the question would start with, “Compare and contrast…..” asking us to consider similarities

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December 5 , 2022 /

DAY FIVE – INDOOR DETAILS

It was an Anglican Bishop, Frances Atterbury, who said, “It’s attention to detail that makes the difference between average and stunning.”  What we see every day may seem ordinary, familiar and even, at times, boring.  It is perhaps why we travel to other places to get a different view of something we might regard as

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December 4 , 2022 /

DAY FOUR – OBSERVING

Today, begin noticing your surroundings in some detail, eyes wide open to shapes, colors, designs and little things.  Whether you are inside or out of doors will change the view so let’s start with indoors and notice where and how you are sitting.  Secondly, if you look straight ahead what do you see?  Now look

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December 3 , 2022 /

DAY THREE – SETTLING IN

Easing into the new and unfamiliar is not flipping a switch from off to on or out to in.  It is getting used to something gradually, a step at a time, little by little, not all at once like jumping into the deep end where we may be over our heads. Becoming comfortable with something

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December 2 , 2022 /

DAY TWO – SOLITUDE

Alone. By myself. Quiet.  These are favorable conditions for exploring the interior life.  No distractions, no diversions, no noise and no interruptions. Silence is a welcome change from the ordinary, everyday business of living and working, of being in a family or a community and extracting myself for these brief moments of looking and listening

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December 1 , 2022 /

A BOLD EXPERIMENT

I have been posting a blog approximately every week and have been doing that many years.  Starting today, December 1, 2022,  I am going to try and post a blog every day with the theme “A Month’s Journey Inside.”  I may or may not be successful but I believe it’s worth giving it a good

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