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Category: Silence

Dark(ish) days ...

Do you ever wake up dark(ish)? Not full-out depressed, not necessarily sad, but just off -- weary, worn out, not whistling a happy tune. That's me right now. It just happened, there were no warning lights to prepare me for this state of affairs. I woke in the night, sweaty, restless, a tad tortured in […]

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When a great moment knocks ...

I have been thinking about this Boris Pasternak quote for weeks now: "When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, its sound is often no louder than the beating of your heart and it is very easy to miss it." (Boris Pasternak - 1890-1960) I have been thinking back on this past […]

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The more peace in us ...

I start most days sitting in silence. Often, because of the drive-drive-drive culture we live in, this feels like wasted time. Sometimes it is, mostly because I fail to put my phone down and I end up frittering the time away. Distracted, never settled, jumping at every noise my phone makes. Those times make my […]

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Flying low ...

This past weekend I started a new chapter in my life; an old closed and a new begun. Details are unimportant, but the internal energy expended to navigate the emotions around the ending of the old and the starting of the new, left me spent. So today I lean into a poem in a dog-eared […]

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But first the quiet ...

"Best of any song is bird song in the quiet, but first you must have the quiet." (Wendell Berry)

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Welcome to Alice at Dawn. My short posts are meant to be regular reminders to keep walking, to keep living, to continue to listen to the voice deep within your spirit that whispers ... this is the way. Walk in it.

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