Today’s inspiration! Even stuck in an airport, music can lift our spirits… bring us together… and create community… Add some music to your life. Watch this video from 2017.
Category: Spirit
Qarrtsiluni ~ in the darkness
Qarrtsiluni. Inuit, Iñupiaq / v. / kʌːrʒ.sɪ.luːnɪ / kartz-sih-loo-nih – Sitting together in the darkness, perhaps expectantly (e.g., waiting for something to happen or to ‘burst forth’); the strange quiet before a momentous event. The hunters gather quietly inside. One by one, they enter and sit in the silent darkness. No lamps, no light, they …Read More
Winter Solstice ~ Season of Yule
December 21st marks the Winter Solstice. This is the darkest of days — the day with the shortest daylight hours. From here on out, the days get longer. Even in the depth of the winter season, this is the day to celebrate the returning of the light. My friend Janis McCall lives in Scotland where …Read More
What really matters
As we come upon the New Year, I reflect on what really matters in life. The ritual of closing the year calls me to slow down and reflect on what has passed — both good and bad. I’m thinking of the meaningful moments: challenges that I have overcome, failures where I get up again with …Read More
Measuring Life
How do you measure a life? “Life is not measured by the breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away.” I start the hike in essential silence. What is that you say? It is the space of deep introspection where you can still manage to yell out to your friend, “Don’t …Read More
Release and Renewal ~ Finding Community
One month to go.What do you want to release from 2020? In December of 1979, my parents moved from Jamaica to Florida. Only in retrospect can I look back and honor all that they left behind: the country that they were born in, the close support of family and friends, a business that they had built. However, …Read More
Attitude of Gratitude ~ Release and Renewal
I am grateful for you. Thank you for your support and encouragement. Every few years, this blog/newsletter undergoes a shift. Here we go again. I feel another one coming. It was more than 5 years ago that I was first captivated by storytelling magic. One person on stage, no props, no special visual effects… just …Read More
Life After Childbirth
In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other: “Do you believe in life after delivery?” The other replied, “Why? Of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later.” “Nonsense,” said the first. “There is no life after delivery. What …Read More
The way out is through the window
“The way out is through the window.” The invisible thought ricocheted in my head and came out as a silent whisper. Mr. Peabody was an 73-year-old in the last stages of death. He was comatose, and I was meeting him for the first time. I was taking over his care as the attending doctor for …Read More
Prayer for Healing
Written 11/2/2020 by Dr. Joel Ying prior to 11/3/2020 U.S. Election Day. Prayer for Healing Post-Election I call upon the resources deep within this nation—the yearning that is in every heart to be free. May the right hand and the left hand see that they are of one body, one beating heart. May we face …Read More