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David Gittlin
Mar 4, 20221 min read
True Colors
“True Colors” is a song with legs. It started out as a song written for a mother in a traditional ballad format. Billy Steinberg and Tom...
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David Gittlin
Aug 20, 20211 min read
Where Does The Time Go?
Fifty years have flown by at supersonic speed. I can flash back on memories of my childhood and adolescence and remember them clearly as...
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David Gittlin
Jul 20, 20212 min read
Is There Anything I Can Do?
In these troubling times, it seems like the world could go off a cliff at any moment. I remember what it was like in the nineteen-sixties...
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David Gittlin
Jun 20, 20213 min read
The First Day of Forever
This is the prologue to the new edition of “Three Days to Darkness.” I’ve extensively rewritten the original novel (first published in...
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David Gittlin
Jun 8, 20211 min read
“Fields of Gold”
“Fields of Gold” is one of Sting’s most famous songs. It is a stunning and thoughtful track about the journey of commitment. The song...
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David Gittlin
Apr 16, 20211 min read
The Gathering Of Spirits
I had never heard of Carrie Newcomer before a friend played one of her songs in an online gazing/meditation class. “The Gathering of...
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David Gittlin
Mar 18, 20212 min read
Appreciating The Beauty Within And Without
A photographic interpretation of the Kate Wolf song “Muddy Roads.” Visit http://www.davidgittlin.net for the full post titled “Through...
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David Gittlin
Feb 9, 20211 min read
Through Her Music
I choose to wander in sunlight to avoid the riptide of darkness threatening to engulf our world. I prefer to see and hear beauty. I...
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David Gittlin
Dec 22, 20203 min read
What’s At The Bottom Of The Staircase ?
Six years ago, I attended a seminar presented by Saniel Bonder titled “The Sun in Your Heart is Rising–Activating Your Embodied...
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David Gittlin
Nov 9, 20202 min read
If I Dare To Leap
“The path forward may sometimes be unclear. And it may be messy. But the shared heart is calling, and we have an opportunity to make...
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David Gittlin
Aug 4, 20201 min read
What Lies Deep Within?
Go beyond the mundane mutterings of mind I tell myself Into a broader perspective Into a deeper reservoir of peace and love within Dive...
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David Gittlin
Jul 20, 20202 min read
What Would Happen If We Made Life Simpler and Less Difficult?
To say there is a lot going on these days is an understatement. To say most of it is very troubling will not shock anyone. To ask, “What...
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David Gittlin
Jul 5, 20204 min read
Money is Good (Happiness Too)
I’m taking a ten-week online course about awakening to consciousness. One of the teachers in the course made some statements in a video...
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David Gittlin
Jun 15, 20203 min read
Where Does Peace Begin?
I am constantly amazed that people wander around all day staring into their smart phones, as if these devices somehow magically fulfill...
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David Gittlin
May 19, 20203 min read
Towards an Unshakable Foundation of Peace
Waiting for a connecting flight from San Francisco on my way home to Fort Lauderdale, I look around me at the faces of my fellow early...
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David Gittlin
May 14, 20202 min read
Hidden Treasure
What Do You Really Need? There are things in this world that promise satisfaction, and we launch into the quest to have these things...
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David Gittlin
May 11, 20201 min read
Break Open the Sky
Let the sky break open and burn a deep azure blue. Let the ripening fields explode in the warmth of the shimmering sun. Let God fall down...
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David Gittlin
Apr 27, 20201 min read
Serenity
To experience serenity, I think of the word “see.” To feel serene, I remember that a wise person sees the big picture. From this...
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David Gittlin
Apr 21, 20201 min read
This Single Moment
I don’t know anything anymore I don’t know up from down Or east from west Or happiness from sadness I don’t know anything It’s becoming...
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David Gittlin
Mar 30, 20201 min read
Where Is My Playground?
Where is my playground now? I want to romp in sunlit fields. Like I did when I was younger. But there are no open fields now like there...
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