A Fresh Spin On An Old Truism For People Who Are Tired Of Being Reminded This Too Shall Pass
Try focusing on what’s noticeably changing from moment to moment.
My Year of Meditating Virtually
A year of streaming my weekday morning meditation practice during the pandemic.
Let the Years be Kind
“A little broken, a little new.
we are the impact and the glue.
Capable more than we know
to call this fixer-upper home.”
Sleeping at Last
Substitution of the Image for Relentless Earth
We look at the world once, in childhood.
The rest is memory.
Louise Glück
A Place You’ve Never Been
"Nothing will tell you
where you are.
Each moment is a place
you’ve never been."
~ Mark Strand
Respites in the Demands of Sensation
I swoon and recoil at the tresses blowing
in an arbor without glow
or flame. These are reprieves. Respites
in the demands of sensation
and flow. Know this: you can you can
you can you can you can.
~ Margot Schilpp
Feeling What It's Like to Be Weather
“If we sit still, like a mountain in a hurricane, if we don't protect ourselves from the trueness and the vividness and the immediacy and the lack of confirmation of simply being part of life, then we are not this separate being who has to have things turn out our way.”
Pema Chödrön