your daily rock : plant the seed
Tess and I planted seeds this spring: peas, radishes, limas, squash, tomatoes, basil, kale, arugula, poppies, sunflowers, and cone flowers. We planted them in faith that some of those seeds might sprout. We planted them long before they would sprout. Watered them while they did their invisible magic. Some sprouted …
your daily rock : happy is a choice
We don’t choose our circumstances a lot of the time. But we choose how we are in those circumstances. I recognize that “happy is a choice” simplifies the issue. For anyone living with depression, for example, it’s not true or easy. But for many people, it is a choice. We …
your daily rock : love without reservation
Yes, I know what you’re thinking: “I can’t or won’t really love without reservation, because I’ve been hurt before.” We all have. We all have beautiful scars. The question is whether we let someone else determine our future, whether we let past hurt determine future joy, whether we let yesterday …
your daily rock : pull your own weight
It is too easy to let others do the heavy lifting. Afraid about global warming? Upset by child hunger in your community? Distraught about hate crimes, GMOs, animal cruelty, or a million other issues? It’s too easy to let others do something about those things, isn’t it? Don’t abdicate your …
your daily rock : ask the question. wait for the answer.
“…I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which …
your daily rock : never dim your light
There is a light shining through you. Sometimes you can feel it, see it. And, admittedly, sometimes you can’t. But it is always there, even if hidden from you. Never dim that light. Don’t play small. Expand in the way that feels right to you. Follow that light into the …
your daily rock : be willing
Be willing to love. Be willing to be loved. Be willing to leap. Be willing to know when you need safety instead. Be willing to know. Be willing to not know. Be willing to say yes. Be willing to say no. Be willing to protect. Be willing to free. Be …
your daily rock : do one small thing.
Goodness, there’s a big mountain in front of you. So much to do. The lists are enormous, and endless, and getting bigger. It paralyzes me sometimes. You? Today, I’m going to remember this: Do one small thing. Just one. Love, (These beautifully painted rocks are created by …
your daily rock : enjoy the space between
The most potent spaces are the spaces between. Liminal spaces. Between this moment and the next. Between life and death. Between one rung of the monkey bar and the next. We may think the point is to get to the next bar. But the point is to enjoy that exhilarating …
your daily rock : love all your bits
It is so easy to love the parts of yourself that are lovable, either by your own definition or that of others. Those good hair days and straight A’s and good work ethic and all that lovingkindness and those great recipes for Sangria and always remembering to floss and the …
