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- Looking with Jesus: Now in 3-D - by Submitted on May 07, 2011 from Susan DuganI knelt on the floor and shot Kayleigh’s well-worn cloth piggy down the long hall. “Strike one,” I said. Instead of fetching, my little dog merely blinked. Then she turned her back on me and pretended to scratch her belly. “We’re burning daylight here,” I told her, glancing at my watch. I ...
Views: 2302 - Objects of Projection - by Submitted on May 07, 2011 from Susan DuganI suppose the clouds of squelched guilt had been gathering for some time in the dark recesses of my scant gray matter. Following a weekend in which I appeared to have remained remarkably right-minded despite distressing developments in the objects of my projection I awoke once more mouthing the ...
Views: 2211(1 vote) - The Runaway Bunny - by Submitted on Apr 23, 2011 from Susan Dugan“Read it again, Mama,” my then two-year-old daughter would chant night after night at bedtime. And regardless of how tired I was, I would start over, vaguely conscious even then that my own little bunny would all too soon be running away as all little bunnies eventually do. “Once there was a ...
Views: 3316 - The house that guilt built - by Submitted on Jan 28, 2011 from Susan DuganI was walking my dog on another oddly mild December day here in Denver, Colorado, the kind of weather that would have catapulted pre-A Course in Miracles Susan into a frenzied contemplation of the inevitability of global warming. But today, in the throes of another imaginary interview with ...
Views: 1436(1 vote) - A meaningless world engenders fear - by Submitted on Jan 28, 2011 from Susan DuganSo far this seems to be the winter of dreaming myself closer to waking awareness that I am actually living a dream of my own making, and not even a very entertaining one at that. In the most recent sleeping version now available on DVD, I found myself in a movie multiplex along with thousands of ...
Views: 1780(1 vote) - I am entitled to change my mind - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2010 from Susan DuganAbout eight years before I started studying A Course in Miracles and truly recognized it as my path home a close friend and fellow spiritual seeker gave me the big blue book. Someone had passed it on to her and although she recognized on some level that it held great wisdom, she just couldn’t ...
Views: 1968(5 votes) - Awakening happens (and happens, and happens, and happens) - by Submitted on Dec 16, 2009 from Susan DuganOver decades of spiritual searching I have met a handful of people who claim to have awakened to the truth beyond the dream of separate interests, the lives we believe we are living in this world. Most have undergone spontaneous, dramatic shifts in awareness usually following a particularly ...
Views: 1559(4 votes) - What I have learned from my dog - by Submitted on Dec 16, 2009 from Susan DuganOver the past few months the idea of getting a dog had blossomed in my mind. My daughter had begun to drive and would be a high school senior next year. College loomed. I also sensed my troubled relationship with our aging cat Daisy Mae drawing to a close. She had begun behaving like a person ...
Views: 1660(4 votes) - Let me recognize my problems have been solved - by Submitted on Oct 31, 2009 from Susan DuganLet me recognize my problems have been solved “Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive!” -Bugs Bunny The persona I keep forgetting I am not is such a drama queen. My father used to call her Sarah Bernhardt after the silent film melodrama star. My junior high friends ...
Views: 1981(3 votes) - He dropped dead - by Submitted on Sep 21, 2009 from Susan Dugan“He dropped dead,” said the stranger beside me at the local Japanese diner. He sat as if in prayer, leaning forward over the counter toward a woman who appeared to be the owner and clearly recognized him. In my peripheral vision I took in the blur of his physical attributes: African American ...
Views: 1266 - You can go home againSubmitted on Sep 17, 2009 from Susan DuganYou can go home again “We know nothing. You are now up to speed.” -Steve Martin as Inspector Clouseau, Pink Panther 2 In the set I constructed in which to act out my coming of age there are many flags and many fences. Stone walls that once protected revolutionary freedom fighters from ...
Views: 1436(4 votes) - Some things will never end - by Submitted on Sep 11, 2009 from Susan DuganMy teenage daughter had been chosen to sing a duet in her high school’s end-of-the-year POPS concert. In his fifteen years in the role, the choirmaster had only chosen freshman for solos once before. It made my daughter feel special. I am sorry to say it made me feel pretty damn special, too. ...
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