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Former President & CEO of multiple hospital systems and founding president & CEO of 20-hospital OhioHealth, best selling author, film artist, ordained minister, composer, published poet, syndicated T.V. host, trial attorney, federal prosecutor and Municipal Court Judge. Erie is internationally known as the founder of the Radical Loving Care(R)movement. He also heads Erie Chapman Foundation, Dane Dakota Productions, LLC, and Chapman Health International, Inc.

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Former President & CEO of multiple hospital systems and founding president & CEO of 20-hospital OhioHealth, best selling author, film artist, ordained minister, composer, published poet, syndicated T.V. host, trial attorney, federal prosecutor and Municipal Court Judge. Erie is internationally known as the founder of the Radical Loving Care(R)movement. He also heads Erie Chapman Foundation, Dane Dakota Productions, LLC, and Chapman Health International, Inc.

Rest in the Ordinary

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As you may know, Geisha’s spend years learning how to prepare and pour a cup of tea with complete grace. The tea ceremony becomes a meditation.

We who have been raised in the west may never have imagined how ordinary work can become a meditation. In 1978, I took this photograph of a woman sweeping steps near a sidewalk in Montreal. This photograph hangs in our home. Whether this woman imagines her sweeping as a meditation or not, her image has become a meditation for me – a reminder of how the heart may rest while the hands work.

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2 responses to “Rest in the Ordinary”

  1. Ellen Johnston, R.N. Avatar
    Ellen Johnston, R.N.

    Yes. I knew this thing about the Geisha’s and their tea ceremony. Oddly, I hadn’t thought about applying it in my own life until I saw this meditation.
    Ellen Johnston, R.N.
    Seattle
    P.S. I really like the photo. It has a nice, whimsical quality.

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  2. Jean Reese, LSW Avatar
    Jean Reese, LSW

    I’m very taken with this simple photo and the whole idea of contemplating the everyday. I guess I always thought that was called daydreaming. But your meditation makes me realize its different. Daydreaming is going away, meditating on doing the thing seems more about staying in the present. I hope you will write more about this.
    Sincerely,
    Jean Reese LSW

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