Today everything is mindfulness. “Hitting your tee shot, have your mind on the tee, not the putt you just missed.” Or, “Gardening, feel the soil; be with the plants not with your guilt about what you ate for breakfast.” Be here now. Live in the present. Yet the mind wanders, often in summer to summers… Continue Reading
Have you tried to delight in the present moment, really enjoyed the here and now? Eating a treat, have you truly tasted it, smelled it, seen it, even with noise around you? I wondered, one recent day, if we can pay attention to both life outside us and our interior life at the same time.… Continue Reading
I like order. What an understatement. My cousins, too, learned neatnickness from our grandmother, Memère. Many French Canadian women inherit a flair forle ménage. Not biologically hardwired like us, one cousin’s husband, says, “It’s a sickness with you people.” He profits from this “illness.” His shirts hang in his closet lined up by color; easier to… Continue Reading
On the second day of summer, I sit on a bench alone on the Eastern Promenade in Portland, gazing at one of the world’s most gorgeous views. I see scattered boats speckling the harbor and hear their halyards clapping and slapping the masts. The azure above holds blankets of clouds that somehow do not block… Continue Reading
LBGTQ Pride month. Fifty years since Stonewall. Three years since forty-nine killed in Florida at the popular gay bar Pulse. Two weeks since four died in Detroit in anti-gay murders. So amid happy parades, rainbow flags, and “how far we’ve come,” more work calls out for us to see people as people. What needs doing… Continue Reading
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