Archive for the ‘Featured Letters’ Category
This Year, I Am Where I Need To Be
Dec
29
Featured Letters | common ground, finish line, need, new year, resolutions, want
“In so much as a white meadow draws your attention, it also points to common ground – the energy we all share, asking us to stand our ground, stand within and expect nothing more than what we are given.” As you enter 2011, look to the simple… (read the rest)
An Unending Blessing Within
Dec
21
Featured Letters | Blessing, Christmas, countenance, gratitude, tradition
When I think of Christmas I travel home. Once there, fond childhood memories fill my day. Ensconced in love those memories sweep me silent, then beg for a hopeful return. For many others, Christmas day is like every other day, with one exception. The spiritual countenance that… (read the rest)
Is Freedom a Simple Extension of Wealth?
Dec
12
Featured Letters | Cambodia, freedom of speech, nine countries, objectivity, remembrance
If I took a pen and drew a line in the sand would it leave an impression? Not likely. It’s a silly notion, but one that faces Cambodia as much as it does the west. Cambodia may draw lines in the sand, but they do so to… (read the rest)
Japan Gifts Us an Ocean of Calm
Dec
05
Featured Letters | calm, japanese culture, nine countries, Silence, simplicity, surrender
Beneath the surrender of the long standing Japanese culture is a simplistic calm. They have long been known for simplicity, one that seems very abstract to the west, except with regard to popular culture as it pertains to commercialism. This notion has nothing to do with calm… (read the rest)
Ambivilent Compassion Gently Rustles Our Tree
Dec
04
Featured Letters | Compassion, disbelief, Gift, indifference, nine countries
Solitary acts of compassion can be and sometimes are greater than the perceived compassion of a larger body. When we act alone in compassion in truth we do no such thing. We act within a loving disposition, energy greater than our own that thrives beyond the physical… (read the rest)