Lisa Cox
Receiving Season
It's giving season. We give thanks and gifts and help and cheer. But this month I would like to talk about receiving. Can you raise your...
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Lisa Cox
Nov 33 min read
Mortality of Moments
Recently I was home in Maine for my parents' burial. On my last afternoon there, I visited the older of my two little brothers and his...
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Lisa Cox
Oct 33 min read
That it will never come again
This past weekend I spent in Seattle with 3 other members of the National End of Life Doula Alliance (NEDA) board and over 100 others...
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Lisa Cox
Sep 33 min read
New Day
One week ago, before I left the house about 7:30am to begin my dog walking rounds, I snapped this photo and posted on Facebook with the...
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Lisa Cox
Jul 302 min read
Deposit a Wish
I was just sitting out in the backyard, eyes closed, feeling the breeze and listening to the birds, when I heard a small "chirp." There...
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Lisa Cox
Jun 293 min read
Timeless Healing
I woke early this morning in Mom's mostly empty apartment, and lay in on the air mattress my brother had brought me, under a quilt loaned...
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Lisa Cox
Jun 23 min read
Time and a Memorial
In April I visited my mother for a few days before heading to Italy for the first week of the 3-Year Program in Advanced Healing and...
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Lisa Cox
Apr 293 min read
April showers bring life.
This month I made a major realization one day when the weather, which had been unseasonably warm (but what is that, anymore?) had turned...
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Lisa Cox
Mar 292 min read
It's About Time (Pt. 2)
March has been a month of time considerations. The month brought the return of Daylight Savings Time, an event that throws many of us for...
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Mar 33 min read
Blessed are the peace makers.
Several days ago I woke feeling a need to write about peace. And struggling with how. Because I was angry about the war in Gaza, and what...
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Lisa Cox
Feb 13 min read
Holding space for holding a grudge?
"I'm not one to hold a grudge," is something you might hear me say over the course of most of my life so far, and generally I'd be...
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rdk562
Jan 13 min read
A flip of the calendar
Happy new year! People all over the world recognize the Julian calendar, and today as the first day of a new year. Chinese new year will...
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Lisa Cox
Dec 14, 20233 min read
A Generation of Grinches?
As a human being, a shamanic practitioner and a death doula, I carry a banner with the motto "Permission, Intention, Compassion." This...
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Lisa Cox
Dec 5, 20233 min read
Goldfish Dreams
There is always some idea lurking in the back of my mind, ready to leap into a blog post. And then when I make the time to sit down......
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Lisa Cox
Oct 27, 20233 min read
An eye for an eye
Wednesday evening as I was bringing snacks into the Berry Center on the University of Wyoming campus for the monthly Audubon Society...
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Lisa Cox
Oct 18, 20233 min read
Little Indignities
Saturday was my dad's birthday. He is in a nursing home, has lived there since February, despite wanting to be at home at this point in...
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Lisa Cox
Oct 3, 20233 min read
Kicking the Bucket - Serendipity and Synchronicity
I thought of calling this post "Serendipity" or "Synchronicity" because those two beautiful words cropped up often during the various...
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Lisa Cox
Sep 5, 20232 min read
Fjaer Danse: The Beauty of Letting Things Go
A couple days ago I found an anonymous quote, paraphrased, "Autumn lets us see how beautiful it is to let things go." Paraphrased because...
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Lisa Cox
Aug 5, 20233 min read
A Wicked Wind
Yesterday as I was getting ready to go out the door to set up for farmers market, the sky darkened. "Market day," I said. We all like to...
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Lisa Cox
Jul 26, 20233 min read
Pulling Eye Teeth
Some days I wake up with a great idea to put on paper! Other days I draw a blank. Some months when it comes time to sit in front of the...
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