Frog Medicine: What do Frog and the Dalai Lama Have in Common?

Written by Tayria Ward on May 30, 2011

This story is a good example of tracking images through life, like a scientist or archaeologist continually collecting data with “pattern integrity” (in the words of R. Buckminster Fuller). There is a LOT of adventure in image tracking. Here is an example.

Frog. What do I know about frogs? Next to nothing. Meaningful

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One More Time

Written by Tayria Ward on May 29, 2011

Sometimes life
has to break your heart
one more time.

In case you missed it the first time.
Or the second.
Or the third.

“Shatter my heart,”
says the poet.
“Shatter my heart to make room for infinite love.”

Come in infinite love.
Come on.
She’s shattered, and open.


The Universe

Written by Tayria Ward on May 24, 2011

Sometimes the Universe delivers to us the opposite of what we think we want. What we do NOT want.

Who is wiser, the universe or us? I am a student of the ideas that we create our own reality. Buddha said that with our thoughts we create the world, and quantum

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Effects of Shock, Heaven and Hell

Written by Tayria Ward on May 23, 2011

I believe that the effects of shock may be under-analyzed, under-valued and under-appreciated for the most part in our world, even in fields of medicine and psychology that attempt to treat them. All I have seen in catching up with the news is the look of shock on people’s faces

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The Turning World

Written by Tayria Ward on May 22, 2011

I have been thinking today very much about the people who believed the world would end yesterday, sensing what they must be experiencing. I just got home to the mountain, the place paradoxically where I am connected to the news, after being in town very much this past week where

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Domesticated and Undomesticated Mind

Written by Tayria Ward on May 19, 2011

Living between town and mountain presents challenges at nearly every step, impossible to anticipate before I stepped into this adventure a few weeks ago. For the past many years while living on the mountain, most of the dreamwork I did with people took place in telephone sessions or during retreats,

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Re-creating the Brain

Written by Tayria Ward on May 18, 2011

This morning I went to a meeting of a business networking community here in Asheville who meet every Wednesday morning at 8:00. They have an interesting concept, inviting one person of quality and integrity from each profession – one accountant, one realtor, one landscaper, one interior designer, and so on.

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Armageddon

Written by Tayria Ward on May 14, 2011

Last night at dinner a good friend was sharing with us the concerns that some of the people in her life are hyper-conscious and alert about – that an end of the world is coming, the end of the world as we know it. All of the increasing disasters we

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Summer

Written by Tayria Ward on May 12, 2011

When Summer Solstice arrives in June, I must do a ritual to make peace with summer. I do not at all like to be a bitch, but I am going to bitch about summer because I feel like I have to. I ask for help from the nature spirits with

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A void

Written by Tayria Ward on May 8, 2011

Recently, with shifting circumstances in my life, stretching myself between town and mountain and not feeling exactly at home anywhere, imagining how to get my mountain home ready to be a rental – which means removing personal items from living spaces – I keep having this psychological sense of a

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