Metta Musings by Deb Langhans

Metta Musings: A Christmas Prologue

I composed this poem in 1995 for a senior women’s Readers Theatre ensemble I directed in Olympia. It was intended to be read aloud by eight readers. (Softly swaying to a waltz tempo helps provide a…

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Metta Musings: Yesterday & Always

I remember the moment as if it were yesterday… My daughter, Rachel, had just begun the 3rd grade at St. Michael’s School in Olympia, WA. With less than a week of classes under her belt, the…

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Metta Musings: Light for the Holidays

As I gently shook the snow globe just retrieved from the holiday cupboard, unleashed flurries of white began masking the tranquil forest scene in a dulling haze; the predictable effect brought to mind the complexities of…

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Metta Musings: Navigating Aloneness

When Henry David Thoreau was 27 years old, he began his famous adventure in “living deliberately.” This was in 1845 on Walden Pond (in eastern Massachusetts). His reveling emersion in solitude, chronicled in his famous, Walden…

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THANKS & GIVING

A few days ago in Marketplace’s meat section, I overheard one woman say to another, “It won’t be Thanksgiving for my family unless we have our usual gorge fest with all the traditional foods!” Not 15…

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Metta Musings... This is the Time

Many years ago, Rabbi Rami M. Shapiro retold an ancient Jewish parable about creation (paraphrased here) … In the beginning, God created a single brown, black, yellow, red and white human from all the colored sands…

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Metta Musings: What It Is

Every morning around 6:30 a.m., after completing my “Upon Awakening”* ritual, I stumble into the bathroom to wash my face: three soggy washcloth soaks of really warm water followed by five dousings of really cold water.…

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Metta Musings: Priorities

Charles Dickens could be writing current headlines: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…” A surging global pandemic, Mother…

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Metta Musings: The Cure for Misery

I’ll confess: Alongside my typical upbeat, glass-half-full and benevolent nature, a part of me has been miserable for quite a while; miserable as in stressed out, enraged, bitter, even, at times, hateful. That’s hard to admit,…

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Metta Musings - Keep Breathing

Are you holding your breath these days? With all the medical, economic, political and environmental upheaval upon us, is it any wonder? Breath is life. It might be our most faithful lifelong companion as well as…

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Metta Musings: From There to Here…

From There to Here… Eons ago I was married to a man who had significant physical disabilities. Early on in our courtship, we figured out that the very week I was entering the world as a…

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