your daily rock. naps = good
Sleep is the best meditation. -Dalai Lama I’m with the Dalai Lama on this one. Curl up for a nice nap as soon as you can. The world needs more well rested, meditative, peaceful energy in it. Put clean sheets on your bed and enjoy the coolness of them. Can …
thinking thursday.
mind I identified greatly with this story. In large part, this is why we are now unschooling Tess. I’m so excited about this gathering for adults with autism being hosted by two of the people who diagnosed Tess with Asperger’s. It is going to be amazing. If you know adults …
poetry wednesday : you must change your life.
For today’s poetry wednesday, one of my favorite poets and poems: Archaic Torso of Apollo -Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Stephen Mitchell) We cannot know his legendary head with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso is still suffused with brilliance from inside, like a lamp, in which his …
Tuesday reads.
I just finished reading The Road of Lost Innocence by Somaly Mam, the story of her survival of the Cambodian sex trade and her work to end the sexual exploitation of girls and women. This is such a difficult topic–and one many of us don’t know about and don’t …
happy 8th birthday, 37days!
Eight years ago today, I started writing 37days. It changed my life. Completely. Not only the writing–finding my way into words in a fuller, more significant way–but also getting to know the amazing community that has gathered around this work and these simple ideas of loving well, living fully, letting …
sunday sounds.
Listen, listen, and watch. (I’ll give you one guess as to which moments I loved the most in this.) We love to be delighted. Why don’t we allow ourselves to be delighted more often?
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 …
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 …
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. …
