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Awakening Is A Way, by Irka Schmuck

March 17, 2012

Waking up Awakening is sometimes hard. The body is aching. I’m longing to continue dreaming my dream. Staying unconscious. Floating between space and time. Wake up, wake up, wake up – whispers the timer, whispers the soul, whispers the world. Wake up to create the new world. Wake up to make your dream come true. [...]

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A Lullaby to Convenience

March 16, 2012

Couldn’t resist this song’s edge nor it’s softness after yesterday’s post. Delicious its complexities. “splinter” by Ani DiFranco somethin’ about this landscape just don’t feel right hyper-air-conditioned and lit up all night like we just gotta see how comfortable comfortable can get like we can’t even bring ourselves to sweat like we can’t even bring [...]

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Beautiful Scenery, Devastating View: The Hero* Journeys on Midway

March 15, 2012

Yesterday’s ocean post leads uncannily into today’s, a story so compelling it is hard to choose which segment to run. Inside the three minutes of the video posted here, our lives are compared again to the forces of nature, but this time we are the wave. Please open your senses and grab a tissue, for [...]

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How to Relate to A Wave, in the Ocean as in Life

March 14, 2012

Sure, waking up is like swimming in the ocean, breathless, totally invigorating, with wave after wave of aliveness. It also happens that aliveness in the form of an ocean wave can kill you if you don’t know how to relate with it. Which is maybe the feeling people get when resisting the things they fear [...]

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Sleeping (and Waking) with the Cult of “Not Enough,” by Pearl Mattenson

March 13, 2012

My awakening has not been of the “alarm-clock-ring-snaps-me-into-action” variety. More like the “waking-up my-16-year-old-son-for-school” variety. I hear his alarm go off and I wait. Then I gently rouse him to consciousness and say, “Time to get up. You don’t want to miss the bus.” He looks at me and nods. A little later I am [...]

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Springing Ahead, Like, Way Ahead: Quantum Wakefulness in 3 Leaps

March 12, 2012

1. One Voice Ain’t Enough So I figured it out. With the help of Dyana Valentine and Stephanie Murphy, my confideante, the Wake Up Series will continue like this: Through March 31, Story Charmer will be a platform for community pieces, conversations on waking up. Send me your stories, your moments of awakening, and I’ll [...]

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Conversation or Confrontation: Speak Your Piece, Live Your Peace

March 7, 2012

What’s scary about conversations? What razor teeth are threatening enough to chase confrontation into the dark? Are we worried about being revealed? Worried about being wrong? Afraid that if we ARE in fact wrong, there’s no way to right ourselves to a new view? And what exactly IS confrontation? Have you heard these words cross [...]

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The Waking Up Series

March 1, 2012

Seduced I lean against the headboard, laptop and late night my company, lights dim. I’m traversing mental whimsies, and snicker when I imagine a character thinking he can achieve enlightenment simply by waking up early in the mornings, as a practice. “Waking up to embody Waking Up,” I think. “That’s cute.” I’m still snickering, when [...]

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Talking fast, Listening slow + Waking the glow

February 21, 2012

Talking fast My dad used to tap his toe waiting for me to get to the end of a story. He’s a very tall man. I was a small girl, maybe closer in standing distance to his big dumb foot tapping than to his face. It drove me crazy. They were amazing adventures and shocks [...]

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Sweet Sleep, Rough Dreams + An Invitation to Wake Up with Me

February 17, 2012

Anxiety dreams in a day like sleep Anxiety dreams. Have them? Some friends and I were comparing ours last week when I realized that THAT DAY had itself been an anxiety dream: Hurrying to get home because of a date I was already too late for, traffic on all north-south streets backed up into the [...]

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