Category Archives: Life Lessons

Traveling Light

Posted on January 1, 2009 by mcallister

Have you ever had a dream in which you have left something somewhere and are trying to find it? It might be clothes, or a backpack, or a person; but something that feels important to carry forward. Perhaps you can’t … Continue reading →

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Coming to a Pause

Posted on December 1, 2008 by mcallister

Many years ago, I was living in California and found myself in circumstances that led to embarking on a trip to the orient. In preparation I gave away or loaned out to friends everything I owned, with the exception of … Continue reading →

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Into the Gap Between

Posted on September 5, 2008 by mcallister

by Ursula K. LeGuin from Always Coming Home (1985) What do they do, the singers, tale-writers, dancers, painters, shapers, makers? They go there with empty hands, into the gap between. They come back with things in their hands. They go … Continue reading →

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Relationships and Stories

Posted on August 15, 2008 by mcallister

by Alan McAllister, CCHt PhD-phys I still remember when, 3-4 years after marrying a lady from a different culture, it dawned on me that we might have very different concepts of what marriage meant! We came from very different stories, … Continue reading →

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Change and Possibility

Posted on August 1, 2008 by mcallister

There is change in the air this summer. The finishing of old cycles, completion and transition. Among other things in my life, my son, and youngest child, will fly east in a month to start his college education. For him … Continue reading →

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