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A note from Erin: Good morning! This morning I’m inspired to share with you something that’s been super helpful for me, and I hope for you too! Sometimes synchronicity brings similar things into our lives at the same time. For me, in the past few years, one of these has been a powerful question which…

A note from Carl: Good Morning, This morning, these powerful lines from William Stafford are alive for me: “The things you do not have to say make you rich. Saying the things you do not have to say weakens your talk. Hearing the things you do not have to hear dulls your hearing. And the…

A note from Erin: Hello! Shall we start with a short and sweet poem? Love, love, love. It always comes back to that, doesn’t it? :) I have been enjoying reading Maya Angelou’s book “Letter to my Daughter.” Here’s an inspiring question she asks in one of the essays which I thought I’d share with…

A note from Carl: Good Morning! This morning on the cushion, I was reflecting on the response of two great modern Buddhist teachers to the question of: “What is the essence of meditation?” The Tibetan teacher, Chogyam Trunpa Rinpoche responded: “Intimacy. Meditation is the practice of intimacy.” When Suzuki Roshi, on the of the early…

A Note From Erin: Aloha! We returned from a wonderful week in Kauai a few days ago. I tried to send you a newsletter last Thursday from the desk in our cottage below. (The view was spectacular, but my sending was unsuccessful. The Hawaiian technology gods were not smiling on me :) ) I was…