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Winds of Change

On October 21, 2025

In Inner Guidance, Love & Relationships, Spirituality, Waking Dreams

Reading Time: 3 minutes

By Michael Avery, featuring Dennis Ernst

from Seven Signs from the Universe, pp. 139-141, by Michael and Pichaya Avery

Dennis Ernst had been living in the little town of Ashland, Oregon, for eight years, but his dreams were showing him that a change was coming. Soon, he would be leaving the area. He enjoyed his work as an engineer in the small town amongst all the wonderful people who made up the artsy, tourist community. Dennis had learned that windows of opportunity are often brief, so he would need to pay attention if he was going to transition easily through this change.

Going Nowhere at an Idle

By Michael Avery

On October 10, 2025

In Inner Guidance, Love & Relationships, Past Lives & Karma, Spirituality, Stories from the Heart, Waking Dreams

Reading Time: 4 minutes

By Michael Avery, featuring Catherine Ganci

From Seven Signs from the Universe
by Michael and Pichaya Avery, pp. 115-118

Catherine lived in a high-rise apartment in downtown Cleveland and owned a ’95 Mercury Grand Marquis. She rarely drove it, since many shops and attractions were within walking distance, some inside her own building. Catherine always placed her keys in a special place, all by themselves, in a bronze dish located in the entry.

One day, she was passing by the dish and happened to glance down. To her dismay, the keys were not in the dish. After searching each room in her apartment thoroughly, her heart sank.

God Is Love

By Michael Avery

On October 7, 2025

In Guest Posts, Love & Relationships, Spirituality, Stories from the Heart

Reading Time: 2 minutes

Guest Post by Dennis Ernst

A close friend was getting near the end of life, and over our years of friendship we had shared many ideas, speculations, and solved all the world’s problems in our wide ranging conversations.

He had been a history professor and also enjoyed archaeology, philosophy, religion, the sciences. We had debates running over years, on what is consciousness, how humans got to where we are, and the existence of the cosmos.

Visitation

By Michael Avery

On September 22, 2025

In Guest Posts, Health & Healing, Love & Relationships, Spirituality, Stories from the Heart

Reading Time: 4 minutes

Guest Post by Doug Marman

From: The Silent Questions, by Doug Marman, pp. 242-243

I paused for a moment and listened. What was it? The cool breeze rattled leaves along the walk while I waited, listening. Then it came again. A sound in the wind from far away…a child crying…It echoed within me.

Stories from the Field

By Michael Avery

On September 19, 2025

In Animals, Guest Posts, Health & Healing, Love & Relationships, Spirituality, Stories from the Heart

Reading Time: 5 minutes

By Gloria Lionz

STORIES FROM THE FIELD…aka: not-so-random signs the Divine “HAS YOUR BACK.”

Tonight, I left my naturopath’s office (Dr. Kate Wiggin) after closing. Today, like most IV sessions, I was there 3+ hours. The goal? Detoxify my body from mold poisoning (which I posted about several months ago).

Crafting Wabi-Sabi (Poem)

By Michael Avery

On August 3, 2025

In Conscious Living, Guest Posts, Love & Relationships, Personal Growth, Poetry, Spirituality

Reading Time: 2 minutes

Guest Post by Dennis Ernst

I think of my own life and all of its imperfections. The challenges, slowly tearing down outdated beliefs, stripping away all that isn’t needed for the next step in life. This process is an evolution that creatively crafts our becoming into a unique and ever-changing work of art. It challenges us to keep going, keep working, keep crafting our masterpiece of human experience. Each refinement reveals new hidden beauty, depth, and a deeper understanding of our journey and our becoming.

Finding Advice on the Road of Life

By Michael Avery

On July 30, 2025

In HU: An Ancient Mantra, Inner Guidance, Love & Relationships, Personal Growth, Spirituality, Stories from the Heart, Waking Dreams

Reading Time: 2 minutes

By Michael Avery (from Seven Signs from the Universe)

Mark West recently wrote in an email how he’d been cautioned to use more discrimination when expressing his frustration with a person at work. “Sometimes it’s best to just keep silent and contemplate upon the reflection we’re receiving from the world around us,” Mark noted. A waking dream suggested a better approach for him to take the next time he found himself frustrated by the actions of a co-worker.

Wabi-Sabi

By Michael Avery

On July 25, 2025

In Conscious Living, Guest Posts, Love & Relationships, Personal Growth, Spirituality

Reading Time: 3 minutes

Guest Post by Dennis Ernst

Wabi-Sabi’s roots are deeply embedded in Buddhist philosophy, particularly in the teachings that emphasize impermanence, suffering, and the absence of self.

It’s a perspective that sees a simplistic beauty in the transient nature of life, a view that emerged in Japan as an aesthetic counterpoint to the prevailing notions of beauty. The fragile, transient nature of something, imperfect, incomplete becomes a model for the human experience.

The Boy and the Sea

By Michael Avery

On June 11, 2025

In Guest Posts, Love & Relationships, Spirituality, Stories from the Heart

Reading Time: 4 minutes

From: The Silent Questions, pages 256-258.
by Doug Marman

A young boy sat on the edge of the wharf, looking out over the gray water. His legs dangled free in the air, kicking back and forth. This was the place where he sat every day to listen to the sounds that the wind carried and to watch the way the waves danced. The sea was his friend, and he came to visit, just as he visited the geese in Mrs. Thatcher’s yard and the seagulls behind Mr. Danver’s Fish Market.

But the sea was different. The sea seemed to change every day, and yet, somehow, was exactly the same. It seemed endless and huge, yet at times you forgot it was even there, and it would startle you when you noticed it again.

A Squirrel in “The Shariyat?”

By Michael Avery

On June 6, 2025

In Divine Love, Health & Healing, HU: An Ancient Mantra, Inner Guidance, Love & Relationships, Spirituality, Stories from the Heart

Reading Time: 3 minutes

By Michael Avery

A few days ago, when Oi and I began our daily walk along a path that meanders alongside a stream and some natural ponds, we came upon a disturbing scene: a motionless squirrel lying in some grass. His eyes were open, so I concluded that he had left his body through the doors of death.

But then Oi looked closer and saw that its stomach was moving in and out, faintly, but rapidly.

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