Why Practice Mindfulness?
Our minds are usually filled with thoughts. And these thoughts can carry us away with all kinds of associations. We're usually planning or fearing the future or dwelling on the…
Our minds are usually filled with thoughts. And these thoughts can carry us away with all kinds of associations. We're usually planning or fearing the future or dwelling on the…
I am a fluid, ever-changing work in progress. In Tibetan, sentient beings, conscious creatures that can have both positive and negative experiences, are called drowa, translated as 'migrating creatures.' That…
If you are like me and many others, your 'to-do' list is endless. As soon as you cross something off, you add something else. Some essential things must get done…
The new year is well underway, and, as always, time moves quickly. Many of us make resolutions each year, which we may have already broken--I'm guilty of that! But each…
Plots in fiction often consist of a character wanting something and being continually hindered. Without these obstacles, roadblocks, twists, and turns, there wouldn’t be a story. Our lives unfold in…
Are you always hoping or planning to find a better house, better job, or better income? Does it seem that the future holds a time when you will be more…
We live in a world of competition and comparison. Often there are images shown to us by advertisers, movie producers, and news outlets of those who are rich, powerful, “beautiful”…
Everybody has a story, and each is unique, one of a kind. You were born into a certain set of circumstances, and you have thus far worked with it the…
As spring makes its appearance, at least where I live, the earth has been showing its aliveness in a colorful way—trees blossoming with new greenery, flowers of all shapes, sizes…
January 2021 There’s been a shift. Can you feel it? Since a new administration has moved into Washington, a sense of sanity has returned. Plans for dealing with the ongoing…