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June

June 19, 2020

Today is Juneteenth. A day of promise and hope — promise and hope that the United States did not deliver.

And yet, here we are, still trying.

Here we are, over 150 years later, incrementally acknowledging our failures — and endeavoring to do better.

Here we are still having to say Black and Brown Lives Matter.

Many businesses have declared Juneteenth a holiday.

And so today, instead of writing a long blog, I am going to take a holiday, too. And instead of writing, I’m going to look at how this heart-centered practice of we can contribute to the change I want to be in the world.

Will you join me?

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All the Hemispheres

June 18, 2020

Many of us are living in much more isolation than usual. So the opportunities to put we into practice other than in our thinking is a bit more limited. This week the isolation began to get to me. So when I re-read this poem by one of my favorite poets, it was just what I needed. So I thought I’d share it with you, in case you need it, too.

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Groupthink vs Wethink

June 15, 2020

If I see myself as one with you in Love, then I know we share common ground.

If I see you as one with me in Love, then I know we are both the loved of Love.

If every choice I make is made with the goal of the best possible outcome for we instead of me, then I have to turn my thoughts, beliefs, decisions and actions over to Love — or I’m not choosing we. Only Love can guide a we-first choice.

Groupthink is fear-based. Wethink is Love-based.

Groupthink is me first. Wethink is we first.

We Are Each Other's

June 13, 2020

we are each other’s

harvest:

we are each other’s

business:

we are each other’s

magnitude and bond.

- Gwendolyn Brooks

We Shall

June 12, 2020

People keep asking what we need to do — and the answer is the same each time. Choose Love. Listen in Love. Live Love. Lean into Love. Learn from Love. And then just love one another. Over and over and over again.

So this morning, as I was listening for what I needed to hear to do to do that, the thought came to me. What if the basis for every action, to do, thought was we instead of I?

W(hol)E

June 7, 2020

We are never not part of the Whole. No one is ever not part of the Whole. We are all part of the same Whole. And the Whole We is Love.

Everything that is happening right now in the world is bringing all the lies that we have allowed ourselves to believe — or even just passively accept— to the surface to be seen. And when they are seen in Love, then they begin to melt away because they are lies.

Believe

June 5, 2020

Last night I went on a field trip.

My wonderful next door neighbor arranged for me to follow a friend of hers on a 45-minute drive out into the forest to see something that only happens once a year — and only in this part of the world.

On Our Knees

June 3, 2020

Yesterday social media was blacked out. It was a great symbolic gesture — just as kneeling as become a symbolic gesture. But are symbolic gestures enough? They are certainly a start.

But for real transformation to happen, I believe that we must all be down on our knees both in humility and in prayer to the Love that is the only thing that can heal all our wounds.

We are living in a country where at the highest level there is no heart-centered Love-based leadership. So it is up to each of us to love even more. To get down on our knees and acknowledge our part in the problems. To get down on our knees in humility and honesty. To get down on our knees in deep conversations about change. To get down on our knees and invoke the Love that can heal. And to keep getting down on our knees in communion, solidarity, and prayer.

Living We

June 1, 2020

This month’s heart-centered practice is to release the illusion that I am some separate me. Separate from Love. Separate from others. Separate from our world. Separate from our planet.

This month’s practice is to live we.

I have no idea what that will look like. Or what this blog will hold. That’s the beauty of heart-centered practice. Heart-centered practice isn’t like learning the piano or hitting a thousand tennis balls. It is about learning to listen to Love, learning to lean into Love, learning to live Love. By practicing listening, leaning into and living Love. In everything we do. Every single day.

All I know today to guide this heart-centered practice of “we” is what I learned from last month’s heart-centered practice of wholeness. We cannot heal unless we are whole. Which means that there is no whole, healthy, holistic, holy me unless we are whole, healthy, holistic and holy.