By Marguerite Jill Dye “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts . . . there is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance […]
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Mountain Meditation
Racial segregation: how it came about
By Marguerite Jill Dye On Martin Luther King Day, while investigating the roots of segregation in America, I stumbled upon an article in The Atlantic that shocked even my husband, who grew up in segregated North Carolina. “Segregation Had to […]
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The chaos and fury of a tweeting fox
By Marguerite Jill Dye One day last August I was stupefied when words spilled from my pen without pause or thought, as fast as I could write them down. When I reread what I’d written, I was confused and afraid […]
Mountain Meditation
Flurries of a different nature
By Marguerite Jill Dye We are beginning to recognize the immense power of Facebook as a forum, and vehicle of propaganda and fake news since learning about Russia’s cyberwarfare and meddling in the U.S. election. Through Russian Facebook and Instagram […]
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Happiness, karma, and the Golden Rule
By Marguerite Jill Dye The past year has been an exercise in striving for balance in a turbulent sea. The wear and tear has been quite extreme, often exhausting and terribly frustrating. Many people, including me, have fought depression and lacked […]
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A time for new beginnings
By Marguerite Jill Dye “I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in […]
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Extreme self care in extreme times
By Marguerite Jill Dye “Not what we have, but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.” – Epicurus Extreme self care is called for in extreme times, and these times are most certainly extreme. I learned this lesson when I returned […]
Mountain Meditation
Landing on Terra Non Firma
By Marguerite Jill Dye We left Marseille in a powerful Mistral, crossed the Atlantic without event, and landed at Logan in another strong wind, the last hurricane’s tail end that wiped power out across New England. Indeed, the world is all […]
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Blessings from Covadonga, Spain
By Marguerite Jill Dye Sitting outside the Gran Hotel Pelayo in Covadonga, Spain, the internet connection was as elusive as el sol, but soon the sun and blue patches of sky emerged from swirling clouds and mist. We didn’t realize […]
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Dispatch from Europe, Part II
By Marguerite Jill-Dye I sat in the library of a great man whose vision has touched people’s lives all over the world. His name is Father Ernesto Bustio from Guemes, Spain, in the Province of Cantabria. His adjoining office walls […]