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In Memoriam. Alan R. Cochran (1/3/1953-8/2/2018) Valued Client. More Valued Brother-in-law and Friend. For several summers, my family and I made trips to Hilton Head with my sister, Kathy, and her husband, Alan. On one trip, we had been to dinner together and were...
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Power & Presence Part 2
In part 1, we explored “quality of presence” as the way you show up in the world. Presence is your particular flavor and awareness, the way you hold space and move through the details of your days. It is perhaps the difference between the way a school kid who is...
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Power & Presence, Part 1
We live in a truly beautiful world full of goodness and life. One doesn’t have to look very far to find something to appreciate—friends, family, tangy yellow lemons, those elegant cats we call jaguars, moonlight, fast cars, folk music, kissing, and delicious tacos. Please add your own favorite things to the list. We also live in a world that can be scary, unpredictable, and traumatizing.
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Minding the Gaps
Each season offers gifts all its own. January’s spare beauty seems fitting after the extravagance of the holidays. Trees have shed every outer expression of the living sap within. Icy streams conceal mottled fish resting below. Snow blankets the fields’ ridges,...
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A Truly Generous Holiday
In the waning days of 2017 we have circled ‘round again into the season of celebration. Our neighborhood landscapes are renovated with twinkling lights, parades, and inflatable Santas. Our inner landscapes of the spirit often feel transformed as well, somehow more...
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Wealth Consciousness, Part 2
Earlier this month we explored common beliefs about money that either limit or enlarge our horizons. Now let’s talk specifics, stating the obvious first! Compounding interest is the way to go for long-term wealth creation. Beyond your 401K though, you probably have...
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Wealth Consciousness, Part 1
The Alchemy of Blessing
Blessing is a beautiful Old English word that means to consecrate or to give thanks. We count our blessings and ask blessing upon our meals. Blessing has even deeper roots though in the porto-germanic word for blood. To bless originally meant to mark or hallow with...
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Receiving Autumn’s Gifts
We enter more deeply into autumn this week and are at long last enjoying cooler temperatures and lower humidity. The leaves will soon turn and fall, repeating their yearly ritual of blaze, surrender, and release. Daylight grows shorter and we naturally turn inward to the warmth of our homes and the fertile ground of our own interior life.
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We Belong to Each Other
This post comes on the heels of the tragic events earlier this week In Las Vegas. We offer these thoughts in solidarity with our grieving nation, and in honor of our Spartanburg community, the neighbors to which we most closely belong. There is no denying we live...
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