So fellow travelers, today I’m taking a break from my own“ memoirs of a pandemic year” to honor a very special team of women and one very lucky dog. This is Sally. On March 8th, sweet Sally succumbed to congestive heart failure. This is her story, shared with permission of all the amazing earth angels […]
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Dreaming of Snow Geese
While we’ve flipped the calendar page from February to March, the ever fickle weather gods of CNY have decided to flip backwards from February to January making the first week of March monotonous, blustery and grey. Even our dog agrees it’s unpleasant for walking. Worse still, I imagine any spring migrants are feeling pretty discouraged […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on March 9, 2021
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The Error of Our Ways
So fellow travelers, much of the currently circulating narrative looks back on where we all were a year ago before “life as we knew” it changed so dramatically. The post I was crafting with a similar focus has a distinctly depressing tone and heaven knows I really do not want to add to the pervasive pandemic […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on March 8, 2021
https://dhrahalski86.com/the-error-of-our-ways/
So Long 2020 and “thanks for all the fish*…”
So fellow travelers, today there will be a pervasive narrative of “Goodbye and good riddance to 2020.” Before we take that on as our story know this:Yes, I too will move forward from 2020 with tremendous relief because, make no mistake my friends, the past year was just the beginning. This first year of the […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on December 31, 2020
https://dhrahalski86.com/so-long-2020-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/
In Search of Magic
So fellow travelers, rising well before dawn to greet the Solstice, a glance out the window in my meditation space revealed this gift a moment which provided the last key to finding what seemed lost. Tis now a seasonmade strange and unfamiliarby required distancingin full contradiction withthe inherent nature of the daywhen gathering together to […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on December 21, 2020
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The Decision
So fellow travelers, it is Thanksgiving Day here in the US, a holiday I enjoy even more than Christmas , and I have always loved Christmas! . Even the few times when I was alone or grieving a great loss , Christmas Day always becomes* magical to me. Still to me Thanksgiving is a celebration […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on November 26, 2020
https://dhrahalski86.com/the-decision/
Guest Post: Poem: Number 225,017
Every day the numbers are posted. And every one of those numbers has a story, a face, a soul , and regardless of years, a life sacrificed too soon. Here is one from Tom Atkins. https://quarryhouse.blog/2020/10/25/poem-number-225017/#like-34618
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on October 26, 2020
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Stretching Time
So fellow travelers, flipping the calendar a few days ago brought a moment of peace I was deeply grateful to take in~ For the first time in 21 years, turning the calendar to August did not generate a rush of urgency fueled by the impossibility of “fitting in” all my planned adventures in the remaining […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on August 4, 2020
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Life’s a Beach
So fellow travelers, yesterday’s adventure started with a this view Which, after packing up camp, I traded for this view The pandemic of 2020, as I’ve mentioned, has created several changes at our state park campgrounds. Check in times are later and check out times are earlier. So the birds obliged my requested wake up […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on July 2, 2020
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Forest Zen
So fellow travelers, this morning’s moment of zen brought this view and these words Under the canopy bathed in forest healing wisdom of the ages sinks in and heals my heart While doing Qi Quong to stretch out the inevitable stiffness which goes with sleeping in a tent, I looked up . Much like the […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on July 1, 2020
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