Sanctifying the Ordinary
Sanctification: making sacred. Sacred is an anagram for scared. We are often scared of the sacred. We are scared because we have not been...
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Jun 14, 2018
Take Your Body To Heart
It was a revelation of epic proportions when my first meditation instructor said to me, the body feels before you put words to it. I...
May 4, 2018
Writing With Beginner’s Mind: Reposted
Who knew a four-day, 2500-kilometre solo drive in the rain, preceded and followed by intense moving activities, could be so exhausting?...
Apr 13, 2018
And The Diamonds Danced
She sat quietly, breathing in and breathing out, breathing in the sharp-sweet-bitter-slightly-sulfurous tang of seaweed and of salt. She...
Feb 15, 2018
Home Is Where The Heart Is
[Continued from last week’s post] Last week I wrote that Jack and I have figured out how to make ourselves at home in many different...
Jan 25, 2018
Abiding
Late afternoon. She’s feeling twitchy and she doesn’t know why. Actually that’s a lie. She knows exactly why. It’s that time of day when...
Dec 28, 2017
Kindness Practices To Get Things Done
I’ve struggled my entire adult life to Get Things Done. It’s not that I’m ever really idle, not really. Even when it looks like I’m doing...
Nov 30, 2017
How I Do Self-Compassion
To pick up where we left off last week: For me, the real deal about being kind to myself is all about being in touch with my own true...
Nov 23, 2017
Beyond the Bubble Bath
“To thine own self be kind.” I mean REALLY TRULY kind. I mean radical kindness, real, radical self-compassion. The kind of kindness that...
Nov 16, 2017
On Becoming a “Writer”
When people ask me what I’m up to these days, I get all tongue tied and fumbly. I hem and haw about sort of being more or less kind of...
Nov 9, 2017
In response to “Negative Emotions Are Key to Well-Being”
I’m doing something a little different today to honour my (recent) commitment to post on Thursdays: reposting something I posted on...
Oct 26, 2017
The Trouble with Silence
The trouble with silence is that it’s so hard to find. And because it’s so hard to find, we’re so not used to it. It makes us...
Sep 30, 2017
Three Meditations on Light on Water
1. FROM A WRITING RETREAT THIS SUMMER Shimmering like white starburst fireworks, sun on gentle waves. Air is still. Calm before the...
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