☀️ Events & News (12/07/24)
The best thing you can do for your life right now
Events & News (published biweekly) is one of the newsletters of The Raft, the online community of author Phyllis Cole-Dai. We Rafters ride the river of life buoyed by poetry, music, and other arts, plus water-drops of wisdom Most everything here is free, but patrons (paid subscribers) get some special perks as a gesture of gratitude.
The Saturday Spark
Tell us: What’s one good thing you can do for your life right now?
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Next week on The Raft . . .
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UPCOMING: “Calming the Heart” patron bash with James Crews (Zoom, December 15, 6PM CT). Details here.
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Whew! That's all for now. Stay well. Stay witty. Stay tuned into your true spot and create from your radiant, beautiful self. See you in two weeks!
Sit with a hospice patient. I’ve started volunteering this year. It’s a kind of practice that forces me to be fully present, with no agenda other than easing this person’s day. It helps me take a stance in the world in which I know that loss is inevitable, but I can choose to show up with simple compassionate presence. Remarkably centering and calming for me, and I sense the patients feel some of that too.
Sit still in the silence, open my eyes wide to see clearly, and listen for and to my inner voice that waits.