Latest Stories from the Blog | Travel, Culture, and Reflection
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The Color of Relationship
Color becomes a doorway into relationship. Through butterflies, moths, flowers, landscapes, and the senses that receive them, this reflection explores perception, co-evolution, interdependence, and the art of noticing. A meditation on how countless realities meet within one living field, revealing the infinite and sacred in the everyday through shared experience.
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Florida Gulf Coast Travel | Exploring the Energy and Soul of Place
Explore Florida Gulf Coast travel through green space, blue space, urban space, history, culture, community, and the sacred in the everyday. These Soul Stories and visual field notes invite you to travel deeper into the energy and soul of place.
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Real Florida · Real Love: Philippe Park, Safety Harbor · A Soul Story
Philippe Park Florida Travel Soul of Place explores the layered memory of Safety Harbor through ancient oaks, Indigenous history, Old Tampa Bay, and more than twenty years of witnessing this community change. A reflective Florida Soul Story about presence, place, and learning to see the history beneath our feet.
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Life is the Love Story
From mindful walks beneath Florida oaks to pilgrimage across Nepal and India, this is a sacred in the everyday journey of presence, alignment, relationship, and seeing the magic in all Life. Through photography, travel, and loving attention, life reveals itself as the love story.
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Look Again: The Art of Noticing the Infinite Within the Everyday
We are all picture takers, framing and editing what we see, remember, and believe. Through photography, mindful moments, and seeing with the heart, Look Again explores the infinite moving through the forms of everyday life.
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The Energy and Soul of Place
Explore the energy and soul of place through cultural immersion, local connection, slow travel, and the living gifts that make each place come alive, from India and Nepal to Florida and home.
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Aesop’s City Mouse and Country Mouse: Gilgamesh, Odysseus, and the Nomadic Memory Within Us
Explore City Mouse and Country Mouse as a soul story of travel, belonging, myth, regeneration, and the Garden within. Through Aesop, Gilgamesh, Odysseus, Nepal, Delhi, and the nomadic memory inside us, this reflection follows the journey back into right relationship with Earth, community, and all life, wherever we are today.
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i thank You God for most this amazing day | A Reflection on e.e. Cummings
A Soul Story reflection on e.e. Cummings’ beloved poem i thank You God for most this amazing day, exploring gratitude, awakened presence, the natural world, and the sacred YES! of being alive.
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The Sacred in the Everyday
A cornerstone reflection on presence, radical love, spiritual travel, regenerative living, and the art of noticing. Through Nepal, India, sacred hospitality, and everyday moments of wonder, The Sacred in the Everyday explores how we remember wholeness through relationship with all life.
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Wordsworth’s The World Is Too Much With Us | A Poem, a Florida Childhood, and the Great Reconciliation
A reflective audio blog by Jana LaBarbera on Wordsworth’s The World Is Too Much With Us, a Florida childhood shaped by woods, water, story, and the lifelong longing to return to relationship with the living Earth.
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Alderman’s Ford Conservation Park and the Memory of Gathering | Florida Soul of Place
A spring walk through Alderman’s Ford Conservation Park along the Alafia River becomes a Soul of Place story of nature, community, connection, and the living memory of gathering.
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The Watcher on the Rooftop, On the Street, and Everywhere | A Soul Story from Old Delhi, India
A Soul Story from Old Delhi, India, where a man watches from a rooftop above the ancient merchant streets as crowds move below in living color. This poetic travel vignette reflects on the energy of place, the pathless path, and the shared portal of presence, reminding us that life itself is the love story.
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Soul Story: Self-Discovery in Rasuwa, Nepal
A soulful reflection on self-discovery through transition, set in a Himalayan village in Rasuwa, Nepal. Through presence, connection, and daily village life, this story explores finding belonging beyond structure.
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Enter the Storyteller Salon | A Space of Voice, Presence, and Living Story
Enter the Storyteller Salon, an audio blog of spoken reflections, voice vignettes, and narrated travel stories. Through presence, sound, and lived experience, each piece offers a deeper way of listening into the soul of place and the unfolding journey.
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The Middle Way in Motion | Ocean Reflections from a Florida Tide Pool at Emerson Point Preserve Florida
A Florida ocean tide pool reflection on the middle way in motion. In a quiet coastal moment, life gathers in balance, revealing the subtle harmony that holds ocean and land in relationship. A soul story of presence, where nature becomes the teacher and the sacred lives in the everyday.
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