each one a story, a life, a family, an overwhelming desire to live, to love, to survive.
“…when we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.” –Sogyal …
thinking thursday.
mind :: my brain and yours Dissenters spur innovation, creativity, and social justice: “Dissent makes the group as a whole smarter and leads to more divergent thinking, but the people who stand up with those sorts of opinions often get beaten up for it." Is your organization or community set …
poetry wednesday : i love you. it will end.
[Image from here] Cold Solace -Anna Belle Kaufman When my mother died, one of her honey cakes remained in the freezer. I couldn’t bear to see it vanish, so it waited, pardoned, in its ice cave behind the metal trays for two more years. On my forty-first birthday I chipped …
mindful monday : restlessness
“It is a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness and well as fundamental spaciousness." -Pema Chodron
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
[image from here] i carry your heart with me -e.e. cummings i carry your heart with me(i carry it inmy heart)i am never without it(anywherei go you go,my dear; and whatever is doneby only me is your doing,my darling)i fearno fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i wantno world(for beautiful you …
thinking thursday.
mind :: my brain and yours Having studied Mandarin Chinese, this story was of interest to me. The complexities and nuances of language fascinate me: "The English language clusters consonants together, which results in a variety of complex syllables such as "stretch" and "plump." But Chinese syllables don't combine that …
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poetry wednesday : the power of your intense fragility
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond -e.e. cummings somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyondany experience,your eyes have their silence:in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,or which i cannot touch because they are too nearyour slightest look easily will unclose methough i have closed myself as fingers,you open …
found-art tuesday : memory
I was delighted to reconnect with my high school art teacher on Facebook recently, and to receive this contact sheet (what's that? I can imagine Tess asking) from him via email yesterday. Ah, to see myself at 18, the age my oldest daughter, Emma, is now. A page of images …
Because I, too, have a dream.
I am reposting this on the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Because I, too, have a dream. I have found as I’ve made my way into adulthood in this life of mine, that I share his dream. And I have dreams of my …
