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It was there all the time.

Mar 10, 2018
6 min

It was there all the time.

I’ve begun a new venture: a part-time revival of the strategic communications consulting practice that helped send Seth to college while my husband and I continued to pay our mortgage and go on a few vacations. So I set out to create a new business card. Because my creative process is often a jumble of words and images at the outset, I started with both a word and a visual. The name I chose to encompass my new venture is Lightspeak, a name I’ve used for many years to hold th

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In the Beginning

Dec 3, 2016
9 min

In the Beginning

People have asked me how I began channeling. First of all, when it began happening, I had never heard of or read any accounts that described what I was feeling. A friend in my workplace asked me what it was like and I had to think a minute before finding the right image. “It feels as if I am somehow standing aside, an empty tube, or a channel through which all these words and images are flowing.” I had never encountered the word that came to be so popular that we don’t even w

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Not Xena: coping after the election of Donald Trump as President

Nov 23, 2016
8 min

Not Xena: coping after the election of Donald Trump as President

I am currently listening to the audio book version of The Game of Thrones, and have come to like Samwell Tarly, the self-confessed coward whose finer qualities his Lord father would not acknowledge as valuable. Sam is a philosopher, perceptive and sensitive. I am identifying with him. I’m afraid of violent encounters, too. Remember seeing the student stand defiantly before the tanks in Tiennanmen Square? As soon as I watched that, I wondered what would propel me to do such a

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Seeds of the Divine

Nov 7, 2016
4 min

Seeds of the Divine

We come to this planet, seeds of the Divine. We come to this planet with the pulse of the cosmos in our hearts. We come to this planet to express the Creator in myriad possibilities. We look out of the Creator’s eyes and listen with the Creator’s ears with hungering zest, pulling in the shapes and sounds of all creation. We swallow all we perceive and all that we do and we call it our own. But it is not our own. We are stewards, using these bodies, filtering information throu

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With Gratitude

Oct 27, 2016
2 min

With Gratitude

Most of all, of course, I am grateful to have lived long enough not only to know my grandchild, but to look forward to being part of her life. If I had been born well before the date I emerged, embodying the same physical configuration that felled my maternal grandfather at age 45, I would probably have not have lived this long, with the expectation of many more joyful, appreciative years ahead. So first, thank you to All That Is for this timeline. Thank you to my family, fri

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