This week, a question has revolved around my mind: How do I get from where I am now to what I only vaguely imagine in the future? Sometimes, our human existence can seem so begrudgingly slow, especially when we're working faithfully on building something new, and especially when we're suffering. And I've reflected on a…
I've been sitting with this question, trying to open to (per Rumi) what will happen instead of planning or trying to direct what I will find in meditation. I ran across this quote, an epigraph to Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones, and I felt it articulated something I had been encountering -- the "eye" of…
This morning, I lost my keys. I looked everywhere, and as the minutes passed into an hour, the thoughts mounted. I need to take the dog out. Now my peaceful morning is already ruined. Is there an extra set somewhere? What if something happens and I'm locked inside the gate? I can't even write all…
“The degree to which you do not believe you have time to spend even ten minutes sitting quietly is the degree to which you desperately need to spend ten minutes sitting quietly.”Donna Farhi, Bringing Yoga to Life Oh, how many times I have remembered these words since I first read them almost ten years ago.…
Simple and Forgotten Things 