Here’s Your Sign. . .
Perhaps some of you are familiar with the Blue Collar Comedy crew: Jeff Foxworthy et al. One of my favorite bits is Bill Engvall’s “Here’s your sign.” It’s the punch line he uses after telling a joke...
View ArticleThe Changing Face of Grief
The morning after my Dad died, he came to me in a dream. In my dream, my Dad is sitting in a chair with a large Tefla bandage on the upper right side of his head. His blue eyes are clear and twinkling...
View ArticleOne Heart Singing
The tears hit me again on my morning walk. As long as it’s been (nearly 5 years) and as healed as I feel, sometimes something still sneaks up and hits me—blindsides me out of the blue. This morning it...
View ArticleI am the Love that Heals All Wounds
This is PART FIVE of a series. To start from the beginning, go here. This is an excerpt from The Deep Water Leaf Society: Harnessing the Transformative Power of Grief (copyright 2008, Claire M....
View ArticleTo Weep For the World
To Weep For the World, digital collage by Claire Perkins aka ArtfulAlchemist on Polyvore. There are days when my heart weeps for the world, and today is one of them. It began with my thoughts about...
View ArticleCreating Meaning
I’ve been listening to a set of CDs a friend of mine loaned me. It’s a recording of Bill Harris from Centerpointe Research Institute presenting information at a retreat. Harris is the developer of...
View ArticleLooking through the Window to the Other Side
I just left the hospital where I went to visit my father, who is 84 and suffering from progressive dementia. It is such a sad thing to see his brilliant mind fading into that gray zone of confusion and...
View ArticleBook News!
I have exciting news on the publishing front! My book cover design has been completed and it’s gorgeous! I want to thank my designer, Kristen Ernst, who did an amazing job translating my thoughts and...
View ArticleTransferred Visions
Recently I spent a week in Dream Teacher Training with Robert Moss at the beautiful and peaceful Mosswood Hollow retreat center in Duvall, Washington. It was so great to be able to step out of the pace...
View Article$90,000 Rolex
This morning I dreamed we gave Cameron a $90,000 Rolex with a broken watch band that we’d found somewhere and counted as our lottery win, our ticket forward. Yet we handed it over to Cameron so he...
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