awareness
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Don’t just breathe….
Fellow Human, Friend, They tell you to breathe, To remember to breathe, But I say, don’t. Don’t just breathe. Stay. Rest. Dwell if you will In the house of your breath. Reside there within the oxygen life blood of your… Continue reading
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Our Unique Aloneness.
There is within each of us the ache of aloneness. An aloneness borne from our uniqueness of experience, for there is no one whose footsteps have graced the world in the ways our own have. Childhoods filled with the complexity… Continue reading
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It’s not always sparkles
Its not always sparkles Or rainbows Or endless bliss flowing freely Its not always sparkles It really isn’t Its not always perfect Its not always clear Sometimes it’s fog That feels very near Sometimes the weight feels heavy Sometimes the… Continue reading
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Being chosen.
I was going to write But then I realised It was more important to be Because sometimes trying to write Takes me out of being me. And on this first day of the year I realised That me in my… Continue reading
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The Truth will make you Free (but….
it may piss you off first) On a walk back from town this week, in the bookshelf of Darlington’s new LGBT Bookstore I saw this book. I seriously laughed out loud. The Evangelical Christian I used to be would have… Continue reading
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Practicing Safe Sensitivity.
Google ‘Sensitive’ and what do you find? (especially in the images). I love both Elaine Arun and Hannah Jane Walkers books on Sensitivity – but – in the main who are their key audiences and examples? Hannahs book is wonderful… Continue reading
James Ballantyne 