your daily rock : focus your attention
It is easy to be here, and not here. It is easy to continue typing while someone sitting in the room with us is talking to us. It is easy to be listening to a poet read deeply moving poetry aloud and be texting at the same time. But none …
your daily rock : detach from being right.
Would you rather be happy or be right? I’m choosing happy. Is it the situation you’re in that is making you angry or upset, or is it your attachment to being right in that situation that is doing the most harm? When you can give up the need to be …
your daily rock : get moving!!
Move it or lose it. That is all. Love, (These beautifully painted rocks are created by Kim Mailhot, aka The Rock Fairy.
your daily rock : refine
Refine: “to remove impurities or unwanted elements from.” What can you refine today? Love, (These beautifully painted rocks are created by Kim Mailhot, aka The Rock Fairy.
your daily rock : you are amazing!
Today, set your alarm to ring on the hour every hour. When you hear the alarm, regardless of circumstance, say (to yourself aloud, if possible, or silently if not), “I am amazing!” Sometimes you just need a wee reminder of how amazing you are. Love, (These beautifully painted …
your daily rock : bloom where you are planted
Feel like you’re in the wrong job? Bloom there anyway. Certain you’re supposed to live somewhere else? Bloom where you are anyway. Bloom where you are planted right now. (And remember: you can only bloom if you nurture yourself. Find your sun, your roots, your sustenance, where you are.) Love, …
your daily rock : revel in not knowing
Not knowing can be a source of great anxiety for some, for many. But not knowing is the only place where learning can happen. I have to “not know” in order to truly learn. Learning isn’t recitation of what we know; it is discovery of what we don’t know. Train …
your daily rock : take a new path
“Mindfulness” sounds so big, so intimidating. But it can be achieved in simple ways. Today, take a new path to the grocery store, to work, to drop the kids off at school. Just drive there in a way outside your normal path. You will be able to see again. Take …
your daily rock : show up for others today
Sometimes, most times, pretty much all the time, we just need to show up. Love, (These beautifully painted rocks are created by Kim Mailhot, aka The Rock Fairy.
your daily rock : bend.
I was in Las Vegas for a conference. Largely pregnant with Emma who would be born six weeks later. A large earthquake hit Los Angeles. And the reverberations made their way to Vegas at 5am. The clothing in the closet of my hotel room on the 19th floor started …
