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Love Wins

January 5, 2021 by Linda A Marshall 18 Comments

This important PBS documentary deepened my understanding of hate in our midst and to reflect on how hurt feelings within any of us can lead to hurting others.

Filed Under: Caring Connections, Grace, Love, Reflections Tagged With: Abuse, Arno Michaelis, Bullying, Christian Picciolini, Darkness, Extremists, Fanaticiism, Fear, Forgiveness, Human Connections, Ignorance, Importance of Understanding, Inner Light, Inspiration, Isolation, Kindness, Love Wins Over Hate, PBS documentary, Shadow Work, Susan Polis Schutz, Trauma

Stretched

October 2, 2020 by Linda A Marshall 6 Comments

I share with you my journey seeking wisdom and stability during this difficult time. I offer it as a gift of love.

Filed Under: Spiritual Guidance, Spirituality, Transformation, Wisdom for Difficult Times Tagged With: Benedictine Monasticsm, Courage, Cynthia Bourgeault, Death, Fear, Glorious Gladiators, Goodwill, Kindness, Listening, Love, M. Scott Peck, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Political Chaos, Powerlessness, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Spiritual Growth, State of Emergence, Terry Patten, The Gospel of Thomas, Transformation of Consciousness, Wisdom, Wisdom School

On Being Among the Vulnerable

March 24, 2020 by Linda A Marshall 8 Comments

Odd Elderly … It is just plain odd to be so deemed. I am well past 65, apparently when we begin to be considered such. I have not thought of myself as “elderly” and “vulnerable” and neither has my 80-year-old friend, Ruth. The second definition given by Merriam-Webster is “old fashioned.” This is what we […]

Filed Under: Community, Conscious Aging Tagged With: Coping with COVID 19, Elderly vs Elder, Facebook Groups, Facetime, Gratitude, Joy, Kindness, Simple Pleasures, Technology, Vulnerability, Zoom

Speaking as an Elder

October 29, 2019 by Linda A Marshall 11 Comments

I have reached the age where many of my contemporaries and I speak of decline, death, legacy, and our responsibility as elders. In this post, I speak as an elder … as one who has gained some wisdom from the challenges life has thrown my way. I am led to this because I have carried […]

Filed Under: Community, Eldering Tagged With: Anger, Barack Obama, Common Ground, Elijah Cummings, Freedom, Inner Work, Kindness, Listening, Michelle Obama, Respect, Responsibility, Wisdom

Following Mary Oliver’s Instructions for Living a Life

February 25, 2019 by Linda A Marshall 3 Comments

“Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” ~Mary Oliver  Living a Life Valentine’s Day 2019: My heart aches as I listen to my favorite podcast, On Being. I am affected more than I realize by Krista Tippett’s conversation with Richard Davidson,  a neuroscientist and founder/director of The Center for Healthy Minds at the University of […]

Filed Under: Community, Family, Inner Life Tagged With: Chronic Sorrow, Kindness, Love, Reflections

Transformation In Process: Personal and Systemic

June 16, 2018 by Linda A Marshall 2 Comments

In many ways, my recent confrontation with the unwieldy and heartless Medicaid bureaucracy mirrors the experiences I wrote about in my memoir, A Long Awakening to Grace. I had naively believed that my daughter had achieved stability and I was past having to fight the system on her behalf.  The wisdom and trust in the […]

Filed Under: Family, Making a difference, Spirituality Tagged With: Challenges, Dealing with bureaucracy, Intention, Kindness, Transformation

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