Cindy Black on January 29th, 2010

That is my thought today as I reflect on how long it’s been since my last post. I have been imagining myself at confession, “Forgive me, it has been 16 days since my last post…”
Sometimes it seems all I can do is inhale. After 16 days of inhaling, you’d think it would be [...]

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Cindy Black on December 31st, 2009

This morning I realized that improvements are made only to that which is faulty. For years I’ve had my inner vision focused on my faults. I have constantly pushed myself to transform into a better person. This is an exhausting road. It is the caged hamster running for its life on the exercise [...]

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Cindy Black on November 10th, 2009

I was flying at 30, 000 feet to see a friend who was dying.  I tried to think of something useful to say to her, I realized I was up in the sky, where Heaven is supposed to be. Then I realized that during all my flying, all the pictures from the moon, the [...]

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Cindy Black on August 15th, 2009

Snow Lion Publications offers an email subscription service for a quote of the week from the Dalai Lama. I love getting these every week, so I’m sharing the inspiration.  Below is today’s example. You can subscribe to this service at Snow Lion.
“…we all have a feeling of closeness to ourselves. Even in cases of apparent [...]

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Cindy Black on July 17th, 2009

I know that my many interests and abilities revolve around a constant.  The constant is my belief in the Divinity of life.  The desire for Divine meaning, purpose, or connection has always been a palpable force within me- as obvious as my heartbeat and breath.  Over the years I have expended lots of energy, time [...]

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Cindy Black on July 4th, 2009

Loui is one of our big black cats. We met him the day he was born in my closet, on a black bath mat, with his two black siblings, sleeping with his black mother. It was a mass of black fur, difficult to differentiate in the darkness of an unlit closet. The only [...]

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Cindy Black on June 30th, 2009

I moved to Florida from upstate New York 5 years ago.  From dirt to sand, from country farms to neighborhoods, from nature to suburbia. Into a white house, with yellow shutters, a couple of trees and too much grass.  Our yard was flat and trim, like every other yard on the block.  In every direction, [...]

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Cindy Black on June 23rd, 2009

When I first heard about how the internet was going to bring us closer, by allowing us to be physically further apart while we communicated, I wondered if I missing something.  I usually score low on those Reader’s Digest Mensa sample questions. Still, something felt “off” as I watched a newscaster being “close” to a [...]

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