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Wright Minded
www.wrightminded.com
November 23,
2005
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 Note From Karen
New Adventures
I'm making daily
trips to the post office with armloads of books
destined to places near and far. After living
here and using the same post office for five
years, they are now just starting to recognize
me as that book lady. I think that's one
rung above bag lady!
Don't forget, until Dec 15
you can buy The Sequoia Seed for $11.11 instead
of $14.95. It's my holiday
gift to you. Perhaps it can be your holiday gift
to another! See below for
my book's description and to read a few chapters
for free.
My deepest
thanks and gratitude go to each of you. Our
journey together has been eventful - some laughs
and tears and many long pondered questions. I
consider you all family. But, some of you don't
write or call much! (smile)
In the next few
weeks I'll be considering some shake-ups in my
life. It's time to root through what is
and determine where to from here. Not sure why
Fall does that to me, but it does. Some of these
changes may affect you and some may ask you to
participate. Like one today --
I'm
considering two book ideas at the moment (got
the bug!) and you are key in one of them. I
want to compile a book filled with pivotal
moments in people's lives. You know, those
moments when everything changed for you. When
something catastrophic or wonderful happened
unexpectedly and you knew that your life would
never again be the same...that you would never
be the same. The moment that caused a
revolutionary change in your view of life and
changed your path.
Moments like
these are life-defining and are incredibly
inspirational. Even when borne of tragedy,
it's in these flickers of time that we draw
from spiritual resources deep within to
re-create ourselves - to find a strength and
wisdom that reveals before-unseen possibility.
If these words
stir something within you, a memory of your
own moment of shift, I invite you to
contact me. I'd love to hear your story
and find out how that moment changed your
life. Your story could be the one that is
someone else's inspiration for change too. It
happens all the time. We hear words, even from
a stranger, and they strike at our very souls.
Words we were meant to hear. Words that
become our catalyst for change. Wouldn't it be
wonderful to be that for someone? Do
you want to make a difference? This may be
your chance. I hope to hear from hundreds of
you! I know there are readers waiting for this
book.
Feature Article
Tree Bones
and Pine Needle Earrings
Fog had come to the
Northwest. Thick blankets of mist and haze cloaking
the trees and muffling the sounds of the river. I
was bundled up tight in my warmest coat, thickest
scarf and down mittens. Alone on the trail.
I've always loved to
walk in fog - the thicker the better. It feels like
arms wrapping around me and holding me close. Not
seeing much beyond my footsteps calms me. Turns my
thoughts inward.
With temperatures
dipping into the freezing zone for about a week now,
trees had discarded most of their Fall splendor. The
ground was deep in leaves and pine needles. Once
hidden by abundant foliage, bare limbs and branches
webbed the sky in a tangle of tree bones. Dark
slashes across powder-white mist. Somehow these
barren forest sentinels felt more powerful and wise
having shed their raucous frock of summer. Even the
lowly anonymous bushes possessed an elemental
dignity.
No wind. Deep quiet.
Raising my gaze from the ground I saw an unexpected
blaze of beauty. Each and every pine needle on the
trees was tipped in a frozen droplet of dew - as if
they had been dipped in diamonds. Tiffany's would
have been jealous of such glistening grandeur.
Not to be outdone,
neighboring bare-limbed branches were draped in
fallen pine needles. Dangling astride the boughs,
the needles looked like rhinestone earrings. The
forest seemed poised for a royal ball.
All about me the
evidence of evolution reminded me that we are all in
moments of transition. Springs become Falls. Death
becomes renewal. Nature seemed to be settling in for
a long, well-deserved sleep. But, under the
appearance of pause, life was gathering strength for
its debut. All things in their own time.
From somewhere in the
distance, a whiff of burning wood filled me with
warmth. A family, perhaps, sat at their hearth
cupping hot chocolate. Brought together on an early
winter's eve morning to remember what's real and
what's important. Love and family.
I turned for home,
reflective and renewed. Life is good - all of it. I
vowed to let go of judging the moment. For, given
time, the moment will reveal its own meaning. Better
to pay attention than critique. To listen and watch
for unexpected glory - like tree bones and pine
needle earrings.
You Don’t Say
"The
moment
one
gives
close
attention
to
anything,
even a
blade
of
grass,
it
becomes
a
mysterious,
awesome,
indescribably
magnificent
world
in
itself."
Henry
Miller
"We
must
learn
to
reawaken
and
keep
ourselves
awake,
not
by
mechanical
aid,
but
by
an
infinite
expectation
of
the
dawn."
Henry
David
Thoreau
"People
usually
consider
walking
on
water
or
in
thin
air
a
miracle.
But
I
think
the
real
miracle
is
not
to
walk
either
on
water
or
in
thin
air,
but
to
walk
on
earth.
Every
day
we
are
engaged
in a
miracle
which
we
don't
even
recognize:
a
blue
sky,
white
clouds,
green
leaves,
the
black,
curious
eyes
of a
child
--
our
own
two
eyes.
All
is a
miracle.:
Thich
Nhat
Hanh
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The Sequoia Seed
by Karen
Wright
Sequoia trees
can tower over 300 feet tall, yet their seed
cones
are very tiny...about the size of a small
chicken egg. It can take
decades for sequoia seeds to break free of
their protective cones
and sprout. Most often, it's the heat from a
wildfire that opens the
cone and releases the seeds. The fire that
destroys much, gives
birth to the seed and new life begins.
We each live
through many of life's fires. Illness, death,
abandonment, disappointment - our fires can
also destroy or give life.
When our personal tragedies leaves us with
nothing familiar to hang onto, that's when
seeds of new possibilities can finally take
root and bring us to a new awareness of who we
are and
why we're here.
The Sequoia
Seed was born from five years of weekly Waking
Up messages. Selected by readers and
strengthened and polished, each of these 23
chapters will reveal new insights into very
familiar challenges. If you've liked Waking
Up, you'll cherish The Sequoia Seed for years
to come.
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- "Our thoughts are the currency with which we buy our lives."
- "What we learn is directly related to the teacher we choose."
- "Clarity does
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Sprouts II sample cards: 
- "It's never too late to be what you might have been."
- "The
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waiting for our wits to grow
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- "Failure is never so frightening as regret."
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Is it not strange that we fear most that which never happens? 
