Big Heart Circle

You Are Wonderful!

Posted by in Community Updates, Family, Gratitude Corner, Healing, Inspiration, Spring 2015 Newsletter

A small team of us have been collaborating and working with John to create several video clips of him talking about and sharing his poetry – primarily as a means of helping him get more exposure for his recent self-published poetry collection: Moving To Completion. One of the fun clips were able to extract is John telling us, “you are wonderful!” Ever since I’ve known John, he has always poured out this very loving affirmation to everyone he encounters. John had a minor stroke about a month ago. We are…read more

Please Tell Them This

Posted by in Gratitude Corner, Poetry Circle

PLEASE TELL THEM THIS   Upon my return from a yoga and art teacher training, a few weeks ago a woman asked me to support her bedridden father. Her father lived the life of a cowboy in Arizona. He is also a poet and environmentalist. When I arrive at his bedside, the cowbow-poet is usually asleep so, we breathe together. I have seen him three times and each time we go on very vivid adventures; in some unknown realm we ride horses, lie in the grass and I even got a…read more

For Robin

Posted by in Gratitude Corner, Inspiration

I’ve been pretty hesitant to include anything about Robin Williams in this shared space of our newly forming newsletter. The fact that he exists in our culture as a “celebrity” makes me tentative about pronouncing his memory here. But the amount of joy, inspiration, hope, imagination, and the unbridled striving for a true life that I received through his expression .. it can’t compare. I live in gratitude and appreciation for the Life he lived, the gifts he gave, not only to me, but to the whole of our circle…read more

Gratitude Corner

Posted by in Gratitude Corner, October 2014, video

I often forget the important details on stuff. Medicine Bear often passes us a teaching that he heard from someone else.. and who that other teacher or elder was, I can’t remember. But I do remember the teaching: “Gratitude will take you all the way.”  Each month we will fill this corner with the overflowing warmth of gratitude and appreciation that pours in from the community. Be encouraged to email your expressions of gratitude in to newsletter@big-heart-circle.org – Stefan     Enjoy the video.