tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46338048275869234382024-03-13T06:08:48.116-07:00God Never HurriesWhat If . . . God Never HurriesMindset Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14057337339163784638noreply@blogger.comBlogger267125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633804827586923438.post-89663238069614061912021-09-28T06:53:00.002-07:002021-09-28T10:37:26.101-07:00Covid's OpportunityThe Covid crisis appears to have brought out both the best and worst in us as human beings. Accepting the truth that we are all flawed can keep us humble and open to forgiving one another and ourselves. Humility can lead us to reflect and make wiser decisions for positive growth in how we relate to one another and this fragile planet we inhabit.Covid’s disruptions have highlighted how Marcia Kaminskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974334116462361067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633804827586923438.post-21866101513315655632021-02-08T11:04:00.005-08:002021-02-28T16:51:59.214-08:00A Book for Our TimeSee No Stranger, a memoir by Valarie Kaur, a Sikh activist, filmmaker and civil rights lawyer, is about learning to love in times of turmoil. Kaur asks us to look at others and say, “You are a part of me I do not yet know.” She knows love as revolutionary--an active, public force that can create new possibilities for our communities, our world, and ourselves. Kaur believes we are at a Marcia Kaminskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974334116462361067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633804827586923438.post-44733880773591355052020-12-03T11:34:00.009-08:002020-12-03T11:54:52.772-08:00Hope for America The Mystery within ...It felt good, hopeful, to watch and listen to President Elect Joe Biden's recent diverse cabinet member picks speak of their vision for how each will work to help our next president govern. It made me wonder if the past four years of disorder in our country is meant to show us what it will take to create a system of liberty and justice for all and protect our Mother Earth.AsMarcia Kaminskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974334116462361067noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633804827586923438.post-14370204406402356772020-10-01T20:39:00.000-07:002020-10-01T20:39:13.291-07:00The Debate The Mystery within...The jarring “debate” between president Trump and Joe Biden was very unsettling. It highlighted the giant step backward America has taken politically. In my first memoire, God Never Hurries, I wrote, "Transformation is an on-going process, and not without some backsliding." I pray America will soon take two giant steps forward with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris leading us Marcia Kaminskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974334116462361067noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633804827586923438.post-48618868695629355632020-09-01T13:33:00.004-07:002020-09-01T13:33:50.045-07:00Learning Unconditional Love The Mystery withinYou know how good it feels when you begin to understand you are learning to do something right for yourself and others. What if we consciously built upon those insightful moments each day? In seeking to learn unconditional love, together we can find the stepping-stones on the long winding path toward loving unconditionally. It is a challenging path but the rewards along the way Marcia Kaminskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974334116462361067noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633804827586923438.post-47597569714330859142020-08-04T18:52:00.000-07:002020-08-04T18:52:50.446-07:00Complicity
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Admitting I have been part of the problem in the racial unrest of our time has been an eye and heart opening experience for me.
I was born on Milwaukee’s Polish south side in the early 1940s. My grandparents’ parents emigrated from Poland. My father was a lawyer, my mother a homemaker. I was unaware of my white privilege, but remember my father’s deep offense Marcia Kaminskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974334116462361067noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633804827586923438.post-88323383729941698002020-05-31T12:48:00.000-07:002020-05-31T12:48:32.525-07:00Virtue in Government
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As is my usual practice after dinner, I had my television tuned to a PBS station while cleaning up the kitchen. A documentary on China’s long history was playing. A word attributed to the ancient Chinese philosopher, Confucius, regarding successful government, caught my attention. The word was virtue. So when my dishwasher started humming, I went to my computer and Marcia Kaminskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974334116462361067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633804827586923438.post-29656343626355223682020-04-30T08:59:00.000-07:002020-04-30T08:59:39.553-07:00Transformative Trouble
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I hope we never go back to the way things were after this global pandemic ends.
I want the compassion I feel for “essential workers” at the low end of the wage scale to be felt by those who can make a positive difference in their wages and work environment.
I want everyone, everywhere to have clean water, air and wholesome food and that we all contribute Marcia Kaminskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974334116462361067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633804827586923438.post-22634663872707981972020-03-31T20:23:00.000-07:002020-04-01T17:33:58.595-07:00Losing It
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I thought I was doing a fairly good job of keeping myself together in these trying pandemic times until I lost it.
Rare March sunshine was brightening that revelatory day. It led me to hang my freshly washed sheets and pillowcases out on the clothesline to dry in a sunny breeze. I put a lawn chair out and was about to sit down and revel in the warm rays when I Marcia Kaminskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974334116462361067noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633804827586923438.post-58838989612095109942020-02-29T16:02:00.000-08:002020-03-07T08:13:28.778-08:00Breaking for Others
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I am hoping this post is the beginning of my return to a more regular schedule of reflection and writing about the important things in life that find me. Surgeries, two weeks apart in January, on some troublesome veins in each of my legs have slowed me down. Recovery is progressing. I am reminded patience is a virtue.
Walking is the recommended activity to aid my Marcia Kaminskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974334116462361067noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633804827586923438.post-81293844943367751272020-01-14T14:51:00.000-08:002020-01-14T14:51:27.038-08:00Troublesome People
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Troublesome people are troubled people. I know this because I have been troubled of late and I became troublesome for another. My awareness gifted me with the opportunity to apologize. As I was apologizing I began to cry because sometimes life just feels overwhelming. My tears were a gift, cathartic for me, and they elicited true empathy from the one whom I had given a Marcia Kaminskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974334116462361067noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633804827586923438.post-1964704944957655212019-12-22T13:11:00.000-08:002019-12-23T02:44:41.019-08:00Darkness and Light
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“The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to finally live it.” Those lines ended Richard Rohr’s 12/17/19 daily reflection. I wrote them down on a small card so they can find me again to remind me to live it.
World news that evening did a story on a camp overflowing with 18,000 refugees fleeing oppression. I stood transfixed, watching and overwhelmed by Marcia Kaminskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974334116462361067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633804827586923438.post-32001235809360323112019-12-04T22:05:00.000-08:002019-12-04T22:05:22.909-08:00Living Life
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November 27 to December 1, 2019
Wednesday and Thursday were two days of cooking, sharing meals, and socializing around the Thanksgiving holiday that left me exhausted before bed each night. Friday, Oliver had his follow-up vet appointment that left me bummed out with his prognosis and on-going restrictions. And Saturday I took my first walk in the woods in over Marcia Kaminskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974334116462361067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633804827586923438.post-20420451994207890332019-11-26T13:52:00.000-08:002019-12-22T12:49:38.361-08:00Sacred Connections
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Thursday, November 21, 2019
A bumper sticker caught my eye and went straight to my heart today. It said, "Believing in her worth she succeeded."
Friday, November 22, 2019
My bumper sticker sighting yesterday brought back the memory of another bumper sticker that changed the direction of my life and opened me to the world of paradox and the power in Marcia Kaminskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974334116462361067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633804827586923438.post-15986943549915521122019-11-19T10:56:00.002-08:002019-11-19T10:56:40.153-08:00Comforting Connections
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
The Mystery within...
As I closed the living room shades against the unseasonably cold night my memory was jogged by the near full moon’s blue glow on the early cover of snow. I remembered a nighttime winter walk with my son Joe and our then beagle-cocker mix, Lydia. I wrote of that walk in my first memoire God Never Hurries.
I remembered soulful Marcia Kaminskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974334116462361067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633804827586923438.post-77142184899889522812019-11-11T21:09:00.000-08:002019-11-13T19:15:01.358-08:00Connecting<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Delia Owens’ novel Where the Crawdads Sing was discussed at book club tonight. Her story’s ending left us with a moral dilemma. I was a little surprised how quickly some came to judgment during our discussion. Life is not so black and white for me anymore. I have come to know its complexities and how differing experiences affect Marcia Kaminskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974334116462361067noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633804827586923438.post-68934458116461228262019-10-29T19:21:00.001-07:002019-10-30T12:15:09.211-07:00Being Present
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Following are two tributes to my late friend Rosemary, written by her husband Mike, and hand delivered to me today.
A CRUISE OF A LIFETIME
Early one balmy summer evening, I dialed up my best buddy Joe, and said, “Want to go cruising?” We lowered the top on my red and black Buick Roadmaster convertible and started down Teutonia Avenue withMarcia Kaminskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974334116462361067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633804827586923438.post-12923778833750310282019-10-22T09:45:00.001-07:002019-10-22T09:45:32.329-07:00Making Connections
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Monday, October 14, 2019
It was with deep gratitude and real joy that I received a stunning acknowledgement from a yoga classmate today. She told me I was “very brave” and how much she enjoyed reading Both/and Things. It was the priceless spiritual connection I longed for to come from my writing.
And a paper copy of my April 30 post titled, “Brave Marcia Kaminskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974334116462361067noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633804827586923438.post-19254235261849142642019-10-13T21:26:00.001-07:002019-10-14T11:49:37.987-07:00Healing Empathy
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Sunday, October 6, 2019
No post today.
Monday, October 7, 2019
No entry yesterday. Got home from the ER after midnight. How fast life can turn chaotic. I stepped into the shower a little after 9:00 p.m. and had just lathered my hair with shampoo when my daughter walked in and said in a shaky voice that I needed to drive her to the hospital, right now. I Marcia Kaminskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974334116462361067noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633804827586923438.post-2426251519309980912019-10-06T10:49:00.000-07:002019-10-07T11:43:22.830-07:00Reflecting Vulnerability
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This week’s post is a little longer than usual since Tuesday’s entry contains a summary of July’s Women Gathering Retreat on Vulnerability that I finally got around to writing.
Sunday, September 29, 2019
There was a very light mist falling when I put on my rain poncho to walk Oliver to the woods this afternoon. I was grateful for my return to daily Marcia Kaminskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974334116462361067noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633804827586923438.post-86617154863139637152019-09-29T14:32:00.000-07:002019-09-29T18:21:08.883-07:00Reflecting Daily
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Postings to my website have been irregular of late and I want to remedy that. I have been occupied with attempting to get my daily life and chores more organized. In sorting through some papers, I found an October 5, 2011 reflection that made me realize the importance of returning to a routine of reflecting and writing something at the end of each day. It is a practice Marcia Kaminskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974334116462361067noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633804827586923438.post-72506264669202720732019-07-30T20:57:00.000-07:002019-07-31T11:01:04.599-07:00My New Book
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My new book, Both/and Things—The Power in Reflection, is soon to be published. It highlights my growing understanding of the paradoxical nature of everything. In my first memoire, God Never Hurries, I danced with fear and anger for my mother’s and my safety. In Both/and Things—The Power in Reflection, I am evolving in my dance with love, Marcia Kaminskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974334116462361067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633804827586923438.post-69807647183201955962019-06-30T21:22:00.000-07:002019-07-06T10:20:33.491-07:00The Other's Shoes
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Back in April 2013, when I first began my God Never Hurries blog, I wrote a post titled, “Oh Happy Fault” which included this quote from Jim Crace’s novel Quarantine “…for everything that God has made is weak, blemished and imperfect by design.” I asked back then, “What if it is our mistakes that evolve us into more wise, kind, tolerant and humble beings?” My Marcia Kaminskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974334116462361067noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633804827586923438.post-30127993674196943992019-05-31T21:27:00.000-07:002019-07-01T12:30:01.484-07:00Forgiveness Mantra
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I have a friend, Karen, who is in an exercise class with me. She shared the following simple mantra that she says to herself when feeling challenged by people being difficult.
“I forgive you ___(name)_____for not being the person I want you to be. I forgive you. I set you free. I set me free.”
I Marcia Kaminskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974334116462361067noreply@blogger.com0