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Remembering

September 11th, 2011    -    2 Comments

Have you noticed the September 11 remembrances were at a frenzied pace this year? It was as if I was reliving the day over and over again every time I heard a radio commentary or read the paper, regardless of how benign the story was. Over the past week I have heard about the musicRead the Rest…


In Response to the Death of Osama Bin Laden

May 5th, 2011    -    6 Comments

The day after 9/11/2001 I wrote to my community about the impact of trauma on our hearts and mind and bodies, and how we could, in our own ways each day following these events, take good care of ourselves and each other. What resonates in me after Bin Laden’s assassination, and the subsequent jubilation inRead the Rest…


Making the Call – the Way of the Future

March 3rd, 2011    -    No Comments

With all the texting and tweeting and facebooking, sending an email can feel like an ancient rite. What’s even more archaic, though, is picking up the phone and dialing (remember it used to be a wheel). Who does that anymore? And forget about being in person: gone are the full offices and fights for theRead the Rest…


Rediscovering Christmas

December 6th, 2010    -    No Comments

Would the overdone, overstuffed, consumer crazed Christmas exist without the media fuel? I understand that retailers are trying to sell goods for their businesses to be profitable so although I can’t stand the commercials, I understand why I am subjected to them. I wonder if the commercialism of this holiday actually stems from the mediaRead the Rest…


Random Acts of Violence

October 7th, 2010    -    No Comments

I woke up this morning thinking about suffering. Partly because I am reading This Is Not The Story You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness by Laura Munson. She gave up Suffering period, full stop, end of story and partly from following my thoughts. How did you sleep? My husband asks . .Read the Rest…


Social fabric: stuck between 2 contexts

September 3rd, 2010    -    No Comments

Then I saw it. That is how it all works. I have to have one of everything and you have to have one of everything because we don’t have a clear social contract about the norms. Or I guess you could say the social contract we do have is about each person for him/herself so I am going against that contract by even making such a request. I could see the whole territory I have to traverse just to borrow one tool, one lousy tool. And I could see how I would rather have my own tool than confront this relatively simple set of transactions. So how then will I get the courage to have conversations about matters much closer to the heart? How will I get the courage up to break down some much larger barrier erected by this culture of separation? How will I find what I need to re-weave that social fabric so my sharing with my neighbor is more relevant than all of the noise I find in the context of separation?


Gardening, an experiment in sufficiency

August 24th, 2010    -    No Comments

I reconnected to Jennifer Jewell of http://www.jewellgarden.com/ in July. She is a garden writer and photographer, her pictures are stunning. In talking to her about sufficiency, gardening and what is enough, it struck me at all three of us at Seven Stones have gardens. Shea being the most avid at this moment, Jen getting herRead the Rest…


social fabric in motion

August 18th, 2010    -    No Comments

Because sufficiency is a lost art in living and business, we are constantly experimenting on ourselves. Everything we offer to our clients comes from the laboratories at Seven Stones and emerges from the quiet voices in our hearts, guts and the far reaches of our minds. Recently, it came to be in our circle thatRead the Rest…


driving and social fabric

August 9th, 2010    -    2 Comments

What is it, I thought, that has someone react with such venom when someone else is clearly under enormous stress? Isn’t that stress, or distress, the source of their erratic and disturbing behavior in the first place? I think that our sense of knowing each other, our sense that each person is doing their best at any given moment, that we are somehow in this together, is hidden from our view and missing in our hearts. This hole in our social fabric, this fraying of our knowing each other, of our sense of deep and real connection to all living being, permits us not to notice, or to even assume the best. This tear in the social fabric makes it ok to beep and yell and gesture in ways that only cause more harm.


where eden is

July 14th, 2010    -    No Comments

As much as I think about and practice sufficiency, rarely do I stumble upon it and allow the recognition to flourish before my eyes. Maybe because I am so literal-brained, so needing of evidence that Yes! Sufficiency is the truth. There is enough already for everyone to live comfortably. There has been now for 40 years. The earth does provide. The technology does exist. We are capable of such levels of consciousness and love. This laden berry bush does not need special food and watering and attention. We do not need to toil, to horde, to manipulate, to compete and to fight for our survival. Not anymore. We can rest in the social fabric right next door, rest into the bounty all around us, simply do the next Right Thing to support the web of this sufficient life. Eden does exist. Over the wall and in my backyard and inside my mind and all around. Today, this is my understanding of sufficiency.


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