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A FEW MOMENTS MAY CARRY A LIFE : "...Carry Me, Carry Me. Carry Me...above the world..."

For many beings, the opportunity to recall and share their gratitude and the beauty, joy, serendipity and love that they have basked in to this point in their life is a happy and fun-filled event. For others of us, well…

From this lofty vantage point of elevated years, I look back over the expanse of my life and find that what really matters to me are a (seemingly rather small) collection of special moments. If you are like me, you may have taken quite a long time to arrive at this realization; that my life actually contains special moments that are richly rewarding and worthy of recall, let alone sharing. The voices of “less than”, “unworthy”, “singleness”, and “fraud” are loud, insistent, constant, and resistant to suggestions of cessation, let alone banishment. As such, it may require an outside agency to provide the necessary impetus to move past these voices and find a different dialogue to participate in.

For me, the generating factor was an assignment in a 300/500HR Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) that I was attending in CY2018. The assignment was to call forth the energies of unconditional love and acceptance inherent in the Heart Chakra and relate how they had manifested in our lives; the so called “Rainbows & Unicorns” moments.

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"...AND WE MAY ASK OURSELVES, HOW DID WE GET HERE ?..."

Addiction, and recovery from addiction, have now been the central tenets of my existence for over 50 years, or half a century. As such, it ought not be a surprise that I tend to look at life as a manifestation of the recovery process. To that end, I must say that I have come to view the COVID-19 / Coronavirus situation as a global “bottom” in the process addiction that is being human.

For those of you unfamiliar with the addiction recovery process as defined by 12 Step programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Narcotics Anonymous (NA), Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACA), or any of the now 40+ offshoot programs that have developed out of this approach, a central tenet of the process is that a “bottom” must be experienced.

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