I like to say: begin again. When you embrace a beginner’s mind, it is humbling to experience your activities – things you do everyday without thought or question – from where you are. You discover a new aspect, something you haven’t thought of or felt before. Approaching your old project from the beginning might reveal …
Celebrate your neurosis everyday
What’s your neurosis? Now that Halloween is over, you don’t have an excuse to obsess over candy, costumes, and creepiness, but you still have your neurosis. Neurosis, as defined by the dictionary, is a “relatively mild mental illness not caused by organic disease, involving symptoms of stress… ” You might know it as a behavior like: worrying about the amount of …
Awake in this very moment
“Awakeness is found in our pleasure and our pain, our confusion and our wisdom. It’s available in each moment of our weird, unfathomable, ordinary everyday lives,” writes Pema Chodron in Comfortable with Uncertainty. I believe the perfect teacher is this very moment. Are you awake? What do you see? This is an experimental series of brief reflections …
Autumn Applause
The ash outside my window wears a joyful scarf of burgundy and gold. The change is a signal for me to give autumn applause and seek grace and serenity in life’s simple gifts. Thanks for reading. If you like this post, please feel free to share it with your friends or send me a comment. Don’t forget, …
The twelfth breakfast – a birthday letter to my son
A letter to my son on his twelfth birthday.
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Life lesson: the beginning is the end
Carved on American poet and writer T. S. Eliot’s tombstone is: “In my beginning an end. In my end a beginning.” It’s an interesting riddle in life to ponder. On Wednesday September 11, many of us reflected upon what happened 12 years ago and what we were doing when the World Trade Center in New York City …
The bitter and sweet of fifth grade
Cheers to the end of fifth grade in all its bittersweet glory, and ahead to summer vacation and a new stage of temporary.
Start again today
Some thoughts on starting again from MommyMusingsBlog by Kristine Bruneau.
