“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, …
Season of enlightenment
What does enlightenment mean? To some enlightenment may mean to gain greater knowledge or understanding about a subject or situation. To others it may mean to have a spiritual awakening. To me enlightenment means that I’m intimate with a moment – acutely aware of what’s happening here and now. There are no words to accurately describe enlightenment. …
Reflections on loss during a melancholy spring
The spring I had longed for brought with it a veil of melancholy and new loss.
The twelfth breakfast – a birthday letter to my son
A letter to my son on his twelfth birthday.
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Three words to guide you in 2014
There are many ways to start 2014 well, but my favorite way is to choose three words to help guide your goals and efforts in the new year.
Thanks for the freedom
My son reminded me that Thanksgiving is a time to be thankful for our freedom.
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 …
