How Sufficiency Looks in My Life Today 2/1/11: Today I am sitting at my desk, watching the gorgeous snow fall and fall while I have this pressure in my back and this nagging voice in my mind telling me I don’t have enough time to get it all done. As I go through my day,Read the Rest…
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Use this guided process to make a powerful ending of your year to set up 2012. Each December, Seven Stones offers a process to the community to complete the year: using the principals and practices of exquisite sufficiency such as telling the truth about what happened and didn’t happen, successes and let-downs, any associations that are called to be celebrated or mourned, and distinguishing actions to be taken. In addition to annually, this process can be used monthly, weekly and even daily!
Resilience
January 20th, 2011 - No Comments
A well known professor was once asked at a dinner party, “Professor, you have children in different generations. From your experience, what would you say is the most important thing you could teach your kids to thrive in life?” And he answered, “Resilience. The most important skill is having the ability to fail, or fallRead the Rest…
I See the Promised Land
January 17th, 2011 - No Comments
Seven Stones Note: In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King’s 82 birthday we offer you this words from his last public appearance, April 1963. NOTE: The following speech, a sermon Dr. Martin Luther King gave at Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 3, 1968, was the last public appearance before his assassination the next day. Read the Rest…
The Gift of Discomfort
January 12th, 2011 - 1 Comment
We’ve all been there and most of us probably agree: moving stinks. Even when it’s chosen, contextualized as an adventure, we enter the unknown. We move into the territory of transition and a massive layer of comfort – or several – is stripped away. When that layer is taken off, that layer of comfort ofRead the Rest…
Re-Inventing Myself
January 10th, 2011 - No Comments
Shea is creating an online course called Re-Inventing Yourself. When I first heard about it I thought oh, this will be good for folks who have been laid off and looking for work. Then I started thinking what does it mean to re-invent oneself? Have I done it, if so when and how? When IRead the Rest…
Resolutions? An Inquiry
January 3rd, 2011 - No Comments
It is that time of year. I have heard folks refer to it as a time for new beginnings, a fresh start, a clean slate or starting over. If you are connected in any way to media then you have heard it is the perfect time to buy a car, join a gym, take aRead the Rest…
Completing 2010
December 27th, 2010 - No Comments
I have found that completion is a very important practice for me. When I am complete I find my softness, my openness, my humanity. For me, forgiveness resides with in completion. I have found it so important that we at Seven Stones offered our final salon of the year as an opportunity for completion. IfRead the Rest…
How Sufficiency Looks, Christmas Time
December 21st, 2010 - 1 Comment
Here’s a look at how standing inside of sufficiency can look: I like to call it our deconstructionist decorated Christmas tree. We are an interreligious family – we light Hanukah candles and spend Christmas with family. Having a Christmas tree doesn’t really flow with our small home and active child. However, we love the feeling of Christmas,Read the Rest…
Love & Time
December 15th, 2010 - No Comments
“The whole purpose of existence is to bring love into existence where it is needed.” ~Barry Long What is the relationship between time and love? I began to wonder about this when it dawned on me that I was trying to escape my child who was having a series of breakdowns that were explosive andRead the Rest…
