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Martha Cook
Chicago, Illinois
Human giggling.
Interests: reading, writing, greening, kayaking, planting, dreaming
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Lots of people want to sell you meditation guides. Before you lay out any money for a how-to course in meditation, try this. Light a candle. Sit down before it. Look at the candle. Focus only on the candle. No words. No thoughts. Just look at the candle. That's it.... Continue reading
Posted Sep 8, 2012 at Questioning Spirit
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Sometimes I sleep late and miss my quiet morning in the back yard. Sometimes I am grumpy and don't feel like meditating. Sometimes I'm just too tired to do my typical evening routine of Ho'oponopono prayers. This morning, I walked my half-finished labyrinth. Halfway through, I perked up. It doesn't... Continue reading
Posted Aug 30, 2012 at Questioning Spirit
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I didn't realize until this morning how important those first waking moments are. Typically, what happens can put me in a good mood or a rotten one requiring an intervention--a climb up that vibrational ladder. This morning I opened my eyes and my first sight was a newly bloomed sunflower... Continue reading
Posted Aug 27, 2012 at Questioning Spirit
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I moved to a new house this year. I wanted to have a garden and my old house didn't have much space for planting. I put in a fence. I thought it might keep the rabbits at bay. I was wrong. But even without the rabbits the squirrels are king... Continue reading
Posted Aug 26, 2012 at Najbaro
When we approach others with a solid sense of ourselves, we have no need to be right or validated. We have no need to force others to change so that we can feel good about ourselves. We simply enjoy each other. This is what true self love is. An attitude... Continue reading
Posted Aug 26, 2012 at Najbaro
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Several years back my family went to Costa Rica and stayed with a family who live half the year in Costa Rica where the wife is from and half the year in Texas where the husband is from. It's a complicated story but the short version is that I was... Continue reading
Posted Aug 26, 2012 at Najbaro
This video made in Israel is addressed to the people of Iran. You will love it. I watch it when I need a lift. Continue reading
Posted Aug 26, 2012 at Najbaro
I was in a funk. Nothing particularly wrong, just couldn't feel my typical optimism, my usual delight in life. To snap myself out of it, I decided to go to one of my favorite places, a plant nursery about 20 minutes from my home. They typically have well thought-out displays... Continue reading
Posted Aug 20, 2012 at Questioning Spirit
Our inner guidance is our innate ability to know what is best for us. Once we have released emotional blocks that muck up our inner guidance system, then we have easy access to a tool that will make our lives easy, rewarding, and abundant. This tool does not need to... Continue reading
Posted Aug 12, 2012 at Questioning Spirit
Jo Dunning, one of the wisest and most loving people I have had the good fortune to encounter, says that one of the best ways to live a happy life is to connect with your inner guidance. Connecting with your inner guidance is easy--if you know how to listen to... Continue reading
Posted Aug 12, 2012 at Questioning Spirit
Some moments in life stand out, never to be forgotten. I have such a moment burned into my memory from about 20 years ago. I stood breathless on the doorstep of my home in the suburbs bidding my good friend, Theresa, goodnight. Theresa had just related a fantastic story about... Continue reading
Posted Aug 5, 2012 at Questioning Spirit
Here's a new way to recycle and have a little fun. Let's send our used birth control packets to Arizona. Instead of recoiling in horror (as I did) at the prospect of an Arizona bill that threatens the very fabric of what it means to be in relationship with other... Continue reading
Posted Mar 15, 2012 at Next Steps
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Proof, that I've raised a compassionate child. My daughter posted this image to her facebook with the caption: This is what I see when I look at a dead turkey. Continue reading
Posted Jan 10, 2012 at Next Steps
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I can't believe this is the first time I've tried growing paperwhites. I saw the jumble of brown bulbs in a basket labeled 50% off at the botanic garden last weekend. I bought five. I wish I'd taken them all. Here's what they looked like yesterday after nestling in a... Continue reading
Posted Jan 9, 2012 at Next Steps
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What is better than self-help books, teleconferences with a guru, coaching calls, or career counseling seminars in tropical paradises? Paper and pen and a bit of quiet time. Today I made 3 lists. 1) What serves me. What am I doing that accomplishes what I want, is good for me,... Continue reading
Posted Jan 8, 2012 at Next Steps
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This Bosnian Pine in the Chicago Botanic Garden made my heart sing. So green! So alive! In late December. I want one for my new backyard. I'm moving into a house with tiny bedrooms and a big back yard. Maybe I'll sleep outside under the trees. Continue reading
Posted Jan 8, 2012 at Next Steps
Nooooo!!!!! The thing I love about bookstores is walking around and finding something weird and unusual. Hard to do that on Amazon. Or BN, actually. It's the independent ones that keep me from feeling that all is not lost.
Toggle Commented Jul 31, 2011 on Who Closed the Borders? at Room Enough
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My daughter Lizzie has a good friend named Lizzy. They share more than names. Both their parents are divorced, they are both attending the same university in the Fall, and they both love to read and to write. That's how I found out that Borders was closing. Friend Lizzy's profile... Continue reading
Posted Jul 20, 2011 at Bindery
Danielle thanks for your enthusiasm! Just go to Kiva.org and click on the tab called community. Look for the search called "Search for a team" and enter Room Enough. That should find my very cool team.
Toggle Commented Jul 20, 2010 on Kiva-ing from Bed at Room Enough
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Thanks! I hope to!
Toggle Commented Jul 17, 2010 on Truth, as told by Me at Room Enough
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