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A book by Brian J. Mueller

The Invitation

366 pieces · in calendar order

January

  1. 1It's in the Stillness
  2. 2Essential Truth #1
  3. 3Essential Truth #2
  4. 4Essential Truth #3
  5. 5Essential Truth #4
  6. 6Essential Truth #5
  7. 7Keeping Awake
  8. 8Tuning
  9. 9A Call to Relax
  10. 10Along a River
  11. 11Let's Move
  12. 12Nighttime
  13. 13Your Heartbeat
  14. 14Here With Me
  15. 15The Call of Duty
  16. 16Oh My Heart
  17. 17Growing Pains
  18. 18While at Peace
  19. 19Confessions
  20. 20The Pathless Path
  21. 21The Right Questions
  22. 22In Exile
  23. 23After the Curtain
  24. 24It's All Right
  25. 25The Heart of the Matter
  26. 26Right Now
  27. 27The Market Mindset
  28. 28The First Line
  29. 29Serenity Salesmen
  30. 30Don't Make it Worse
  31. 31Donny Football

February

  1. 1The Invitation
  2. 2The Only Way to Get There
  3. 3With Arms Wide
  4. 4Within Himself
  5. 5Understanding Avenue
  6. 6Go Deep
  7. 7A Healing Light
  8. 8A Place to Always
  9. 9Before Bed
  10. 10Revisiting the Flow
  11. 11How Silly
  12. 12Bit O' Gold
  13. 13Sing Along
  14. 14Be Patient
  15. 15How to Forget
  16. 16The Silent Songs
  17. 17Calendar App
  18. 18It's in the Middles
  19. 19Reclamation
  20. 20Life Demands
  21. 21Forever
  22. 22New Meaning
  23. 23Bleeding
  24. 24Accept the Call
  25. 25All Goes Away
  26. 26In the Dirt
  27. 27Now I Know
  28. 28River Wisdom
  29. 29River Return

March

  1. 1Quantum Mechanics
  2. 2A Time to Rest
  3. 3The Walls
  4. 4There's Still Time
  5. 5I Am Overcome
  6. 6The Veil Lifted
  7. 7Impərfəct Lovə
  8. 8Growing Space
  9. 9My Plans
  10. 10Wise Counsel
  11. 11Truth
  12. 12My Screens
  13. 13How I Love
  14. 14Slow Dancing
  15. 15Life Is Fine
  16. 16Do Something
  17. 17Go Out and Play
  18. 18Tiny Arrows
  19. 19The Blue Pill
  20. 20My Own Worst Enemy
  21. 21Circles
  22. 22Tenderness
  23. 23Don't Buy More Clothes
  24. 24Becoming Speechless
  25. 25His Mother
  26. 26Prickly People
  27. 27Onions
  28. 28Giving Myself
  29. 29Acquiescence
  30. 30Immigrant Song
  31. 31Time is Relative

April

  1. 1Just Let It Happen
  2. 2A Seed
  3. 3A Good Seat
  4. 4Start Listening
  5. 5Inundated
  6. 6Pray Constantly
  7. 7Right Here, Right Now
  8. 8Ice Age Truth
  9. 9Lighten Your Load
  10. 10Once You See
  11. 11Lightness of Being
  12. 12Exposed
  13. 13Last Night
  14. 14Approach God
  15. 15It's so Easy
  16. 16Belly Fat
  17. 17You Won't Be President
  18. 18Us
  19. 19Here and Everywhere
  20. 20An Artist's Prayer
  21. 21Dark Was the Night
  22. 22The Infinitude
  23. 23The Path of Descent
  24. 24Jubilee
  25. 25Learning to Fly
  26. 26The Virus
  27. 27Feel the Weight
  28. 28Keep Your Pennies
  29. 29Emptiness
  30. 30Should I Be Worried?

May

  1. 1We Can't Go Back
  2. 2Would You Change
  3. 3Imperfection
  4. 4Bullshit Jobs
  5. 5My Fast
  6. 6Only My Soul (The Way Is Love)
  7. 7When All This Is Over
  8. 8Bellyache
  9. 9Joker
  10. 10Off-center
  11. 11Divine Riddles
  12. 12What Else
  13. 13To Ash, To Dust
  14. 14The More I Learn
  15. 15As I Understand
  16. 16Until Now
  17. 17Moon Hanging
  18. 18Money Confusion
  19. 19Zombies
  20. 20Headlong
  21. 21Firmly Grounded
  22. 22We Only See
  23. 23Bedeviled
  24. 24One Life
  25. 25We're All in This
  26. 26The Eternal Journey
  27. 27Politics
  28. 28Our Cells
  29. 29Try Not to Forget
  30. 30I Had to Divorce
  31. 31My Soul Lifts

June

  1. 1Around the Bend
  2. 2Newton's Cradle
  3. 3Preacher Man
  4. 4Be Released
  5. 5A Good Sign
  6. 6Reverence Falls
  7. 7Hunted
  8. 8A Long Relationship
  9. 9Show Up
  10. 10What I'd Say
  11. 11I Need You
  12. 12Empty Cupboards
  13. 13With No Wind
  14. 14Compassion
  15. 15Testify!
  16. 16Wrong or Right
  17. 17A Little Suffering
  18. 18A Love Letter
  19. 19Save Me
  20. 20Doing Less
  21. 21Your Anger
  22. 22Tempting Fate
  23. 23Not Voting
  24. 24I Keep on Writing
  25. 25The Specialist
  26. 26My Life Story
  27. 27The Perfect Space
  28. 28Change of Heart
  29. 29Morning Bell
  30. 30Stolen Voice

July

  1. 1Weary Confession
  2. 2Hesitating Beauty
  3. 3Little Bitty Me
  4. 4Socialism
  5. 5Pandemic
  6. 6The Gears
  7. 7Falling Slowly
  8. 8DNR (Do Not Resuscitate)
  9. 934
  10. 10Shock Doctrine
  11. 11You Don't Notice
  12. 12Inside the Lines
  13. 13Sacred Seeds
  14. 14Tinkerer
  15. 15Cassandra Complex
  16. 16Wanting to Escape
  17. 17The Panic Ends
  18. 18Enjoy the Silence
  19. 19A Point of View
  20. 20Love Changes
  21. 21Like a Rock
  22. 22Unitive Love
  23. 23Grace
  24. 24My Grief
  25. 25Sobriety
  26. 26A Toothache
  27. 27Sinusitis
  28. 28Crawly Things
  29. 29What Feeds Me
  30. 30Good Fortune
  31. 31What Beckons

August

  1. 1My Laundry List
  2. 2Over and Again
  3. 3The Sound of Silence
  4. 4At the Creek Bottom
  5. 5Sing
  6. 6Saltwater
  7. 7Healing Modalities
  8. 8The Notes
  9. 9Community
  10. 10Releasing
  11. 11Tell Me
  12. 12Take That Leap
  13. 13Joy of Being
  14. 14Bite Your Tongue
  15. 15A Beginning's End
  16. 16The Silver Lining
  17. 17Beyond Cost
  18. 18The Manuals
  19. 19Nothing Beyond Living
  20. 20Come into the Light
  21. 21Truth and the Soul
  22. 22Figuring It All Out
  23. 23Churched
  24. 24She
  25. 25Presbyopia
  26. 26Those Who Survive
  27. 27Witness Me Bargaining
  28. 28What's the Right Amount?
  29. 29A Prayer for Everyone
  30. 30Twice
  31. 31Cheers to the Misfits!

September

  1. 1Set Yourself Free
  2. 2Rock
  3. 3Love
  4. 4Harmony
  5. 5The Winds
  6. 6Nostalgia
  7. 7Lucky
  8. 8Decay
  9. 9Soul Food
  10. 10Awakened
  11. 11The Poetry of Fierce Landscapes
  12. 12If Ever...
  13. 13The Crescendo
  14. 14All Those Places
  15. 15I Used to Know
  16. 16A Softening
  17. 17Grandfather
  18. 18Amazing Grace
  19. 19Things I Don't Remember
  20. 20Surprising
  21. 21Silencio
  22. 22To Be an X
  23. 23My Soul is Serene
  24. 24Instrument of Love
  25. 25My First Poem
  26. 26Beyond Love Stories
  27. 27Breath
  28. 28Manhood
  29. 29Pour
  30. 30The Real Thing

October

  1. 1Outages
  2. 2Love Is
  3. 3Intimacy
  4. 4We Belong
  5. 5For All Those Days
  6. 6Stars Are the Light
  7. 7Beating Heart
  8. 8Foot Rub
  9. 9This Sacred Space
  10. 10My Favorite Colors
  11. 11A Love Feast
  12. 12Oblivion
  13. 13Decoding the Spirits
  14. 14Everyone
  15. 15A Better Me
  16. 16Impermanence
  17. 17Timeless Truth
  18. 18Birkenstock
  19. 19Did Not Last
  20. 20Inner Peace
  21. 21Who am I Kidding?
  22. 22Oh, Grow Up!
  23. 23What Am I Doing?
  24. 24Memories
  25. 25Adoption Day
  26. 26Here and Now
  27. 27Fix Everything
  28. 28Other People's Feelings
  29. 29As Water Goes
  30. 30Divine Mystery
  31. 31Go Ahead, Cry

November

  1. 1Here All Along
  2. 2Pull the Plug
  3. 3Before I Begin...
  4. 4So Simple
  5. 5Guy Fawkes
  6. 6Source to Mouth
  7. 7Great Conversations
  8. 8Overcome
  9. 9A Bigger Fight
  10. 10It's Not Time
  11. 11Call to Your Soul
  12. 12Second Spring
  13. 13Fold 'em
  14. 14A Slave Ship Called Jesus*
  15. 15Musical Chairs
  16. 16Always Remember
  17. 17Conformity
  18. 18For What It's Worth
  19. 19Rock in My Shoe
  20. 20Little Me
  21. 21Winter Weather
  22. 22The Fixers
  23. 23A Great Awakening
  24. 24Sacred Reasons
  25. 25Baked
  26. 26Numb
  27. 27Cults
  28. 28Recklessness
  29. 29Relax
  30. 30Responsibility

December

  1. 1No Signal
  2. 2Soul Talk
  3. 3Tick of the Clock
  4. 4The Appalachians
  5. 5Maybe
  6. 6At Home
  7. 7A Day Off
  8. 8Brian Shrugged
  9. 9One and the Same
  10. 10We're All Poets
  11. 11Trusting Uncertainty
  12. 12Lost in Presidio
  13. 13Listen from the Heart
  14. 14Speak from the Heart
  15. 15Be Spontaneous and Authentic
  16. 16Be Lean of Expression
  17. 17Tilt Tenderly
  18. 18Rest Assured
  19. 19Some Reason
  20. 20Remembering
  21. 21Fire and Ice
  22. 22Drifting
  23. 23Immortality
  24. 24Born Again
  25. 25Year End
  26. 26A Blessing
  27. 27Falling Water
  28. 28Peace Now
  29. 29A Free Lunch
  30. 30Clearheaded
  31. 31Getting Past the Past