Tools and Tales for Breaking Up, Waking Up, and Falling In Love
From the monthly archives:
There are so many books and blogs written about how to be happy, how to get what you want, how thinking positive thoughts will cure you of all your ills. In some ways this is yet another one of those blogs—written in the hopes of helping people live fuller, richer, happier lives. And for that [...]
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Sometimes I sense that my life is a like a long hard labor, where most of my work is simply to get out of the way and accept gravity, but over and over again I find myself in the thick of it, resisting, struggling, trying to wrestle what would do better to be left along [...]
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Ahhhh…. Anger, the word for this energy coursing through me, wanting to shake and scream and stomp and throw punches. Something is wrong, something that is fundamental to who I am is being misunderstood, something I need right now isn’t present and I’m mad. I’m so mad and I know it because this tremor, this [...]
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There is a long list of possible reasons why it is difficult for people to listen—to themselves or others or the wind in the trees. Our minds are cluttered with thoughts and their isn’t room for listening, we are habituated to make up stories and believe them, we already think we know everything, we’ve never [...]
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My garden is simultaneously being neglected by me and roasted by the sun. Thankfully some plants seem to do well under these conditions: fennel, cilantro, basil, and weeds. I’ve harvested some garlic and will harvest the rest today. I made some delicious pesto out of garlic scapes and lived off peas for a week. Otherwise [...]
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As we nurture the seedlings inside ourselves, as we turn to listen to what appears to be small and vulnerable within and meet it with tenderness and patience, we must also be fierce in our resolve to protect and make space for this new life. A month or so ago I started walking down a [...]
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For many years I was completely confused by the idea of patience, and was certain I didn’t have any of this particular quality, or what I did have seemed to come at a cost I couldn’t endure for long. I thought patience was the ability to maintain oneself in unpleasant, difficult, painful circumstances without complaint [...]
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