Tag: future

• Digging My Way To China

  

  When I was about 9 or 10 my dad built a sandbox in the backyard of our home. Nothing real big and certainly nothing fancy. But it all a young child needed to ignite his imagination. To this day I am not sure where this idea came from, but I was certain that I could…

  Gary Merel

  November 14, 2022

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  10 year old boy, awe, China, coming into being, conversation, creative, distinctively, distracted, family, freind, future, future of my life, Grace, grace ignites, growing old, imagination, impulse, intelligence, loving way, our lives, process of creation, pure being, realm of ego, rhythm of life, significant conversation, spontaneous, understanding, unfolding

• Being OK With Fear

  

  This blog post is about fear. My experience of fear. Something I have been become very familiar with in the last few weeks. It’s not like I haven’t been afraid before. Sometimes very intensely. Lately, it just seems that fear has taken over my attention and is demanding some consideration. Fear is one of the…

  Gary Merel

  October 6, 2022

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• Finding Validation for My Life

  

  Hacklebarney State Park, NJ. Part of my spiritual origin story. A very special place for me. I have been going there for at least 50 years. I went there to pray. To meditate. To restore myself. To do medicine. Planted prayer arrows. To be in nature. To have fun. On hot days, I would go…

  Gary Merel

  August 16, 2022

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  allegory, arjuna, epic battle, explore, future, future of my life, Hacklebarney state park NJ, hindusim, holy scripture, inertia, krishna, kurukshetra, Meditate, mond, origin story, primordial, spiritual awareness, spiritual practice, timeless, validation, woods