mindful monday : embrace
Hugging is a form of mindfulness. Magic happens when you really hug someone. Hug them as you breathe in and out deeply three times. From Thich Naht Hanh: Hugging meditation is a practice I invented. In 1966, a woman poet took me to the Atlanta Airport and then asked, "Is …
poetry wednesday : by inches
by inches You want it here and now, a remedy for everything gone wrong. A magic wand, perhaps, alighted on your shoulders. An angel whispering sweet nothings while you sleep so you wake benighted with certainty that you are whole once again. You realize your patience is diminishing, and yet …
found-art tuesday : letters from a six-year-old
The afternoon after meeting Santa, Tess typed a letter to him. I found it this morning. We'll go to the post office and mail it this afternoon.
mindful monday : magic comes through ordinary people
I watched Tessie experience magic on Saturday. The Asheville Holiday Parade is a tradition, especially since Emma started marching in it a few years ago with the Asheville High School band. This year was her last such parade, now as senior section leader to the awesome sousaphone section. And so …
thinking thursday.
Every Thursday, a few links, including one to Mr Depp just because he has been declared the Sexiest Man Alive. (Where I can follow the serendipitous thread I followed to get there, I'll include a thanks to the person who surfaced it for me.) mind :: my brain and your …
poetry wednesday : homage to my hips
Homage to My Hips these hips are big hips.they need space to move around in.they don't fit into littlepetty places. these hipsare free hips.they don't like to be held back.these hips have never been enslaved,they go where they want to go they do what they want to do. these hips …
found-art tuesday : create a visual journal
I drove last night to Cullowhee, North Carolina, to read for the third time to N.C. school teachers attending retreats at the NC Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT). They are among my favorite crowds because TEACHERS COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY ROCK. Last night, there were two seminar groups who …
mindful monday : offer them a peppermunt from Holland
This is the 1000th post on 37days. To celebrate this nice big round number, I am posting an essay from one of my favorite writers, Amy McCracken. It's all about offering a peppermunt from Holland, about loving, about mindfulness, about sitting quietly with a tin of mints in your lap …
simple saturday. happiness flow chart.
Sometimes life is simpler than we make it out to be. It seems to me that we are always in choice. Even when circumstance throws us unhappiness and misery and more, we choose how we are in that circumstance. Sometimes the change we need to make is a very simple …
