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 …
happy birthday, daddy.
My father would be 86 today, had he lived past his 53rd birthday. Happy birthday, Daddy.
mindful monday : the week of inward looking.
7 days. 7 thought leaders. 7 questions. Let The Week of Inward Looking be your meditation during this week between Christmas and New Year’s. Starts December 26 and ends January 1, 2013. One question a day. Seth Godin, Jonathan Fields, Susan Piver, Jen Louden, Andrew Mellen, Ken Robert, and me. …
thinking thursday.
mind Please don’t. Need a run-down of the year’s top scientific achievements? YOU ARE IN LUCK! I have been thinking a lot about denial recently. It is such a powerful defense mechanism–and we all practice it: “Denial functions to protect the ego from things that the individual cannot cope with. …
poetry wednesday : i have no wings.
“People turn to poetry in times of crisis because it comes closer than any other art form to addressing what cannot be said.” – W. S. Merwin I Have No Wings -Richard Shelton but since I have feet I can walk since I can walk I will arrive and when …
autism is not a mental illness
My daughter, Tess, is so proud of being an Aspie. She came up with the idea (above) for a t-shirt and bumper sticker shortly after being diagnosed with Asperger’s this past June. That diagnosis explained so much to her. It gave her an identity besides “broken,” which is how she …
