What’s in the Water?

Guidance for Swimming Against the Stream

In waking up to whiteness, there are questions to answer and ideas to confront. Molly’s insights bring perspective and clarity.

Molly Gordon
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What is it about meditation, anyway?

This week I have invited my friend Eric Klein to share a perspective about changing the patterns that can keep us stuck in life and work. I hope you enjoy it. What do you do about those patterns anyway? Imagine a friend comes to you all excited about her new...

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Sally and the invisible visible mess

On Saturday I swept the deck. Yesterday I swept the carport. Today I swept the front porch. That may not impress you, but it made an impression on me, and it got me to thinking about invisible visible messes. One kind of invisible visible mess is the mess that accrues...

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Is it time to be disappointing?

Have you ever felt frantic while suspecting that on some level you were complicit in your discomfort? I felt this way today as I became increasingly pressured and anxious about getting things done. All week I had been moving things that I couldn't finish from one day...

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If the Universe is friendly, why am I overwhelmed again?

Last week I wrote about how to live in a friendly Universe, and wouldn't you know it? The day before the post appeared I was in tears. What's up with that? Life happens What happened between the day I wrote about the friendly Universe and the day I burst into tears?...

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How to live in a friendly Universe

Many of you know that my husband was in a serious automobile collision on July 30th. He was in the hospital for 12 days and in a skilled nursing facility for another week. He came home three days ago and will be in a wheelchair for another month or so. After that he...

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Why Doesn’t Money Behave?

Have you ever come to a sticking point around money and said to yourself, “Why don’t I have this figured out yet?” Perhaps you’ve done your homework, learned about money and how to manage it, but as soon as you get ahead, something happens, and you are right back...

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Is Money Safe with You?

If money was looking for shelter from the storm, would you be a reliable source of support and protection? When it comes to money, are you safe from injury or error? Is it safe for you to make mistakes? When we aren’t safe, we shut down. We learn denial, defiance,...

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What the fox said to the little prince

One day a little prince comes upon a fox. “Come and play with me,” proposed the little prince. “I am so unhappy.” “I cannot play with you,” the fox said. “I am not tamed.” “Ah! Please excuse me,” said the little prince, “What does it mean ‘tame’?” “It is an act too...

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