Today, in the midst of the flurry, a few perfect moments The dishes done,sink clear,bed made,floor vacuumed….sitting down, admiring the feeling of space… Della dancing in the living room… Goosebumps after an uninterrupted cool shower after a very hot walk… Such pleasure and beauty in these ordinary moments, so grateful to have noticed Share This:
for the first time in 3 years, I gave my weight over to the water a crystal clear lake in New Hampshire, surrounded by hillsides- no motors, no houses, just quiet. I turned my back on the shore and felt myself just held there, not stiffly or motionless, not at all– fluid, dynamic, buoyed…suspended…as weightless… Read More
what if, for this moment, we consider what freedom can mean don’t stop at the first thing that comes to mind, keep digging. take this personally. what could freedom look like to you? freedom from limiting or energy consuming habits or relationships? from negative self talk? from procrastination? from saying “I can’t”? from taking the… Read More
I invite you to join me these next few days, within all the fireworks and hoopla, to witness moments of quiet in between in between the parties or the driving or the have-tos and shoulds and oughts… in between the getting there and getting back after the big booming crashes, as the ashes fall slowly… Read More
tonight I invite you to join me in the i-don’t-know-what-to-say breath. words aren’t coming tonight, so instead, mindfulness, awareness of breath if I am quiet enough, I notice sounds like water flowing over rocks, or the million collisions of sand moving under ocean waves or like a light breeze over tall grasses Share This:
tonight I will practice my own take on a full moon breath— slowly, mindfully pulling breath down and in, imagining cool and round. right now the sky is milk and the trees are being tossed by a hot wind… and it is easier to imagine tossed and hot than to imagine cool and slow and… Read More
For the 30 seconds you usually take to read this post, I invite you to take a moment and just breathe. See if you can reconnect to where you are in this moment. Feel your breath move in, and move out. No need to change anything, just witness your breath coming and going, creating miracles.… Read More
Meditation is a form of dropping down, or away, from the roaring brainnoise. Yoga, for me, is sometimes this kind of meditation. So is walking or hiking. Swinging, singing, bouncing, dancing…. all bring me to edges of this place, but often my own self consciousness keeps me tethered. I never considered different forms of journeying… Read More
Home. In the space between that word and these, maybe images came up, maybe memories, maybe expectations, maybe longing, maybe sadness, maybe joy, maybe love, maybe heartbreak, maybe hope…. I have made home in a small cabin, in a beautiful open house, in a cow barn, in a maple tree. I have made home in… Read More
100 Breaths: Experience the power of micro-meditation Meditation can seem mystifying and mystical… The benefits unattainable or something that can only be attained after years of practice and patience and… well…real life (for many of us) does not include easy access to that sort of space and time. In the same way as nearly almost… Read More
