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baby step enlightenment(s) ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
I believe in baby enlightenments — little things that illuminate your day, your practice, change some profound (although possibly small) piece of you and/or your life. Kind of hard to put in words! I even wonder if that’s the whole thing — these small signposts along the Way that signal you’re on the right path.…
beginner’s heart and piggies, all the way home ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
I have a complicated relationship w/ vegetarianism. I’ve been vegetarian at several times during my life, sometimes for as long as a year or more. But my best beloved is a die-hard meat eater (Lady GaGa is lucky there wasn’t a grill nearby, is all I can say), and he is my best beloved. Pretty …
Slytherin, Parseltongue and integrity ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
A couple in Idaho know more than anyone other than a crazed herpetologist should have to know about garter snakes. For three months, they apparently lived dead centre, on top, of a hibernaculum, where snakes hibernate in thousands during winter. These were only garter snakes, sure. But THOUSANDS??? You can read the horror story here.…
a rose is not a rose is not a rose… or, now what kind of beads are those?
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Britton Gildersleeve
Sometimes a rose is not a rose. Or at least a nun is not a nun… At least not when she’s a Buddhist nun. And the beads she’s selling are prayer beads. In that case, she’s an unlicensed vendor. At least on Canal Street. If you go to the news story that follows the sad…
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