thinking thursday.
mind Because Tess will be “unschooled” now rather than return to her fourth grade classroom, I’m reading this and this and this. At the moment, I am reconciling the fact that as a child with Asperger’s, she needs structure–in what is essentially an unstructured approach to learning. Good ideas are …
Your Daily Rock – Look Within
“Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.” –Marcus Aurelius Sitting quietly with ourselves is something we too often forget to do. Why is that? Is it because we are afraid of what we might find in that silence? …
poetry wednesday : burning the old year
Burning the Old Year By Naomi Shihab Nye Letters swallow themselves in seconds. Notes friends tied to the doorknob, transparent scarlet paper, sizzle like moth wings, marry the air. So much of any year is flammable, lists of vegetables, partial poems. Orange swirling flame of days, so …
Your Daily Rock – Simple Wisdom
“Life is actually really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” –Confucius We are living in a culture of experts, some of whom believe their expert status is assured only if they make their wisdom complicated, so the rest of us will need to rely on them for the …
Daily Rock – Begin Where You Are
“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” – Meister Eckhart We hear a lot about beginner’s mind. But I wonder if we let our striving-for-improvement mentality stand in the way of that way of being? Can we reconcile both at the same time: moving forward and having a …
two questions for the new year.
Welcome to 2013! Hands down, my favorite quote to usher in a new year is this by one of my favorite poets, Rainer Maria Rilke: “And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.” How exciting! New slate, new sky, new moments to lean into. …
mindful monday.
My tattoo has three questions from the Buddha on it. I am thinking of those questions today, as we end 2012. How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go? And to those three, I would add this one: Did you make a …
sunday sounds
I hope you can find 5 minutes in your Sunday morning to sit quietly and watch and listen. Love belongs to everyone.
thinking thursday.
mind I found this article about the creation of a new language utterly fascinating, right down to the creator’s meeting with George Lakoff at the end: “’There are a whole lot of questions I have about this,’” he told Quijada, and then explained how he felt Quijada had misread his …
poetry wednesday : cusp.
Cusp –Erin Coughlin Hollowell Puzzle of bones, try to take time out of a watch, stop sundown. It’s all the same weave, all warm from the compost, erasing the written page to blankness. In the morning, the shadow of a hawk split the yard. Inside your ear, mother’s voice— stay …
