Blogging The Shift®

Why Is He Running?

Beca Lewis — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:18:14 +0000

It’s our UPS guy. For the 4 years that we have lived here, and he has been delivering packages to us, he has been running. I assume he was running long before he became our UPS guy, as he was already very practiced at his art when we first met him. He parks at the [...]

The Place of No Drama, No Story, & No Judgment

Beca Lewis — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:08:52 +0000

We’ve all read a book, or watched a movie or show where the characters rush to judgment about a person or situation, and we all know this is a mistake. We know because we have seen the bigger picture and we have more facts. In stories, this creates great drama. We remain riveted to the [...]

Scanning The World Differently: As It Isn’t, It Ain’t.

Beca Lewis — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:11:28 +0000

I was balancing my checkbook and it was making me unhappy. The balance was off by $15.98. “Ah ha,” I thought, “I see a check for $15.98, so if I take that out it will balance correctly.” I did, and it did. However, the problem remained because that check had to be in since it [...]

Walk This Way

Beca Lewis — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:19:09 +0000

Coincidentally, I just finished reading two books, on entirely different subjects, that presented alternative scenarios of life on earth than the one in which we appear to be living. (By the way, they were both much better versions of earthly life today.) In their own way both books were saying, “Walk this way, and experience [...]

The Gift Of Grace

Beca Lewis — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:57:00 +0000

Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave til it gets to shore. – Rumi. We are experiencing the glorious and unexpected gift of an early spring. Instead of the normal 47-degree weather for this time of year, we are reveling in 70-degree plus days. This gift is projected to extend into [...]

Transparent Without Stories And Stuff

Beca Lewis — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:15:38 +0000

The sun warmed me from behind as I picked my way down the rocky trail. The air was filled with bird song and the smell of sage and alyssum, and empty of the sounds of man. Looking down, I could see my shadow moving ahead of me on the rocks. To those rocks, which have [...]

The Ceiling Is Falling – Not!

Beca Lewis — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:05:19 +0000

The bedroom ceiling was worrying me. For a few weeks, something about it kept catching my attention, and the feeling was that something wasn’t “right”. I told Del about my feeling, and he and his son went up into our attic and discovered the problem. For sure, there was something wrong with the ceiling! In [...]

Eva’s Choice: Go For The Goodness

Beca Lewis — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:13:37 +0000

My daughter’s family has a rescue dog named Eva. She is a kind, gentle, loving, and a very happy dog. It would seem that she must have had an easy and happy puppy-hood, but that wasn’t the case at all. In fact, it was completely the opposite. It was hard, mean, and by all appearances, [...]

Ownerless, Boundaryless, Timeless

Beca Lewis — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:35:39 +0000

On very rainy days, across the street from us a stream forms in our neighbor’s yard. Gathering speed as it nears his property line; it flows under the road and empties out into our yard. If it is raining hard enough, it continues its journey down our bank, through the bushes and trees, and into [...]

It’s Inside Knowledge

Beca Lewis — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:31:45 +0000

We are all taught how to look at something and then mimic what we see. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, after all, it is how we learn to read and write, walk, or bake a cake. However, the day must come when we change our viewpoint and ask, “What is the intent behind this, [...]