It’s not quite a zen koan, but it is a real paradox I faced today. Meditating every day is actually sometimes hard to do. Only 4 days in and well … I haven’t meditated 4 times. So today while baby napped I thought it was a great opportunity to try sitting beside her on the …
Did I really just start a project involving writing a blog post every day for a whole year? Yes I did. We will see how it unfolds, but for now it’s going one day at a time. Today was a busier, crazier, sicker day than I planned. I hoped to get up early, go to …
Today was about not getting annoyed when things don’t go my way. I can’t claim complete success, but I stayed aware and chose mostly to be up rather than down. Let’s start with a drive across the lake with Baby to a friend’s to pick up some milk, and two stops along the way owing …
I can’t change the world if I don’t work on myself. At least, that’s a tenet of my working philosophy, and it’s important to me. It’s been stated in many ways: practice what you preach; let deeds, not words be your adorning; don’t be a hypocrite; and on and on the advice goes to start …
Life for the past few years has kept me in constant motion, through extremes I never would have imagined. With a move back home from the States – jobless, newly single and wiped out emotionally and physically from the strain of trying to make it on my own – I was living with my parents …