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The Chapel  

The Chapel  

Embodied Awakened Child The Dimension of Loving-Playfulness Inspired State is Mindfulness Builds the Capacity for Dual Awareness   Nourishing, Healing, Safe The Fox knows not only where to find the necessary food for health and vitality, but where to find nourishment...

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Magic in Moonlight

Magic in Moonlight

Embodied Artist The Dimension of Loving-Work Inspired State of Flow Builds the Capacity for Negative-Capability   Inventive, Magical, Captivating The fox is known to be inventive and resourceful, solutions coming quickly upon her, miraculously pulling her from...

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Jewels

Jewels

Excerpt from Heart-drama: A Way to Beauty and Truth Over our years in Horseshoe, North Carolina, I calculate I have gone on at least 3,500 walks on the same dirt road. My dogs and I have become an integral part of this place, spotted every morning and late afternoon,...

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What Fox Knows About Mating on the Left

What Fox Knows About Mating on the Left

They will deny completely that they have a paralyzed arm and if forced to move it, they will say, "there, I just moved it," while nothing moved.  Iian McGilchrist Two psychiatrists walk into a therapist's office....This is not the beginning of a joke. Married a few...

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Android Family of Origin

Android Family of Origin

There are times I think it might be preferable to be a machine, a robot, an android. Such beings (or non-humans) can evaluate at length what is in front of them, set an agenda that will be followed unvaryingly. They stay-narrowly focused on the appearance of things as...

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Mating in the Left Hemisphere

Mating in the Left Hemisphere

(A woman comes into the frame, smiling.) “Good morning,” she says with a light but husky voice. “This morning we are in the booming Horse Shoe arts district, in North Carolina, which reminds me so much of Venice, Italy, minus the canals and contributions to the...

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The Outsider-Trauma by Omission

The Outsider-Trauma by Omission

The drama is a little slippery. The title the Protagonist provides at the start suggests some kind of crushing force at work. The point of a title is to give some sense of what is to come, but in the enactment the family is presented as loving and well meaning. We...

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