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Every Day Spirit Blog Posts

Jul 25, 2018

Kindness is Your Superpower

When we think about our purpose in life, it's tempting to want to list impressive goals and accomplishments. We want to know we are here...

Jun 26, 2018

Slow Down: Today Is a Gift

“This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.” From one of my heroes, Maya Angelou, this beloved quote illustrates how she...

May 14, 2018

14 Steps to Calm

A friend called yesterday and shared how she was suffering from daily anxiety and panic attacks. She was the third person to relay a...

Mar 3, 2018

The Beauty Within

If you woke up today feeling less than beautiful, remember, that no matter what is going on with you, the soul is always beautiful and...

Oct 30, 2017

Gratitude and Goodbyes

I wake at dawn, wrap in a blanket and head out to soak in the last sights and sounds rising up from this sleepy, hallowed ground. Today...

Oct 23, 2017

A Froggy Hallelujah

My tinnitus came on gradually as a result of a long music career standing next to a guitar amp and in front of a drum kit. (I don't blame...

Oct 16, 2017

Follow Your Own Star

Yesterday, as I was peacefully writing, four horses stampeded down the hill from the farm next door, just a few yards from the window,...

Oct 9, 2017

I Am Not My Breasts

Decked out in their finest, Mom and Dad were on their way down Route A1A in Florida to an anniversary party at an elegant yacht club....

Oct 2, 2017

Love Is Who We Are

I have long held on to the belief that we live in a benevolent universe where the power of good far outweighs the power of evil. In the...

Sep 25, 2017

Joy and the Coffee Cake

As I sit in the morning sun considering ways to celebrate joy in small things, I imagine a colorful tube reaching from the sky to me....

Sep 18, 2017

Trust and the Fawns

The squirrels are collecting and burying nuts; the horses are circling the field in the rain; the leaves are beginning the long slow...