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Mike Larcombe
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Train going down city street that's crowded with people walking - 3 Poems, Including "My Scattered Tribe"

POEMS BY MIKE LARCOMBE: My Scattered Tribe, Fearing the Deer and more

Mike Larcombe·September 1, 2023
My Scattered Tribe In past lives, we were together as one. Hunting, fishing, growing, nurturing, caring, loving, singing, dancing, storytellingand...
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POEMS BY MIKE LARCOMBE: Depression, The Best Is Yet to Come, By the Way

Mike Larcombe·December 26, 2021
Depression I’m so depressed. there is something wrong, something wrong, something wrong. Is it that I have no friends?Is it...
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THE TIMELESS MOMENT: 2 dialogues and a poem about thoughts, existence and death

Mike Larcombe·September 23, 2021
What Doesn’t Exist? The past,the future,only now exists. What is now?Breathing, thinking, feeling. What is feeling?A sensation, a thought about...
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POEMS BY MIKE LARCOMBE: The No-Answer Answer, I Am the Love That I Seek, You Are Not Just You

Mike Larcombe·July 16, 2021
The No-Answer Answer Find and connect with the stillness within,for this is the you that you seek: your unconditional, non-judgmental,...
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THE SACRIFICIAL LAMBS: A poem about the perils of virtual school

Mike Larcombe·February 3, 2021
The young ones are hereThey came from their classroomsThe outsideTheir playgrounds and their parties From kindergarten to universityThe young ones...
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POEMS BY MIKE LARCOMBE: Now Is the Moment Is Now and more

Mike Larcombe·January 1, 2021
A New Year’s Resolution of “Shoulds” and “Shouldn’ts” I live with my “should”I ought to be slim and healthyFlexible and...
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THE PEACE THAT PASSETH ALL UNDERSTANDING: 3 steps to a mindful heaven

Mike Larcombe·November 19, 2020
As we live in the world and relate, we experience ourselves through our thoughts, our emotions and our five basic...
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FIGHT CORONAVIRUS ANXIETY: 9 ways to help yourself and others

Mike Larcombe·March 27, 2020
Anxieties are typically future-based, in that we imagine things becoming worse in the future; often, things that have little chance...
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LONELINESS DURING THE HOLIDAY SEASON: 6 healthy ways to cope

Mike Larcombe·December 18, 2019
Editor’s Note: The article is written from the perspective of an author who celebrates Christmas, but the advice can be...
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THE POWER OF THOUGHT: Reflections on identity and time

Mike Larcombe·December 6, 2019
The six biggest truths ever told Time doesn’t exist. It doesn’t move or go anywhere, as it is always now....
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POEMS BY MIKE LARCOMBE: The Big 5 Love Commitments, Loving Wanting

Mike Larcombe·March 8, 2019
The Big 5 Love Commitments (Love yourself, do what makes you happy, trust your intuition, follow your yes and be with...
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POEMS BY MIKE LARCOMBE: The Moment of Life, Two by Two, The Blame Game, What Really Comes From Me, Old Smokey

Mike Larcombe·January 20, 2019
The Moment of Life I don’t have any advice.But know that you’re alive,And alive is not dead.This is what being...
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MAKING FAT: How today’s living environment contributes to a culture of overeating

Mike Larcombe·November 19, 2018
Everyone knows how to lose weight: eat less, eat healthy and be more active. Everyone would love to be a...
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ACCEPTANCE IS TRICKY: It’s not a “doing” but a “noticing”

Mike Larcombe·October 10, 2018
Why is acceptance so slippery and tricky? Why do we lose it, and then when we find it again, why...
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COFFEE DRINKERS AND TAXI DRIVERS: Finding acceptance in a world of non-acceptance

Mike Larcombe·September 25, 2018
My coffee-loving friend Gerald told me, over a coffee, that there’s a guy working in the coffee shop who doesn’t...
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BLESSED: The discovery of the accepted moment [Part 2]

Mike Larcombe·September 17, 2018
A long time ago now, in 2004, I experienced a kind of “spiritual” awakening that lasted for about nine months...
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BLESSED: The discovery of the accepted moment [Part 1]

Mike Larcombe·September 10, 2018
There was a time when I didn’t know about being in the moment, being present. I didn’t know about awareness...
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THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS NAUGHTY: The end of naughty

Mike Larcombe·July 13, 2018
Adult: So what is it that grown-ups do to make children feel bad? Child: Smack them, shout at them, and...
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Illustration of a bunch of things in the world on top of the Earth, with a question mark included - There's no such thing as naughty

THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS NAUGHTY: The perfectly imperfect everything

Mike Larcombe·July 1, 2018
Child: We have to have rules and laws and the police and judges to stop grow-ups from being naughty, don’t...
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THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS NAUGHTY: No more naughty!

Mike Larcombe·June 17, 2018
Adult: What do you think happens to naughty children who become naughty grown-ups? Child: The bad people go to prison,...
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THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS NAUGHTY: Naughty grows up

Mike Larcombe·June 10, 2018
Adult: We don’t call grown-ups naughty, do we? Child: We say they’re bad people who do bad things to people,...
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Happy kids in the future who don't know about naughty - There's no such thing as naughty

THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS NAUGHTY: Believing in naughty is naughty

Mike Larcombe·May 29, 2018
Adult: Why do you think grown-ups tell children they’re naughty and punish them? Child: So they won’t do something that...
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Little boy being carried up stairs labelled 'naughty step' by mother - There's no such thing as naughty

THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS NAUGHTY: The boy who didn’t want to be alone

Mike Larcombe·May 22, 2018
Child: There once was a little boy named Joe. He was three years old—nearly four, actually—so he thought he wasn’t...
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THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS NAUGHTY: Does the naughty step really work?

Mike Larcombe·May 14, 2018
Adult: Tell me anything you like about children who are naughty. Child: Well, when Lucy is naughty, her Mummy never...
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