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Love Breathes

July 6, 2017 admin Comments 4 comments

Now is where love breathes. -Rumi What does this mean? First, we are to learn that love breathes because love cannot be held too closely; it’s a living thing. For love to be love, it must be given away, just as lilacs—living and breathing things too—release their sweet perfume into the air. A sweet perfume that we can breathe in and enjoy. We cannot trap the lovely fragrance, we cannot inhale and save it for later. Alan Watts wrote, “to…

How Blige and Bono helped me quit my job.

September 23, 2016 admin Comments 0 Comment

A month after I turned 50, I quit my job. I said goodbye to a decent salary (as far as the non-profit sector goes) with a future untold. The poet Mary Oliver reminds us that “something brighter than money moves through our blood,” and I had sensed its pull. I was almost nine years into my monogamous relationship with my job, and I’d been in the game long enough to know that I run on something akin to a seven…