It seats me right in the middle of this insane and lovely life...

Ease from “footies!” Plus life as a patient has deeply informed a physician’s practice. She has distilled this wisdom….

These practices can offer a little sense of relief from the stress of living in this crazy world. Most of them are conveniently portable.

As humans we seem to be attracted, even addicted at times, to the negative. This gave our ancestors a survival edge. The good news is…

It's too easy to get caught up in the negativity and anger that surrounds us these days. So today I share images of things fair and simple.

It gives me a sense of how vast I am in some ways, and how a ridiculously tiny at the same time.

Sometimes they fall on us--that's always fun--but they rarely land exactly where we think they will.

His prose is delightful, incorporating a sing-song repetition, rooted in the rhythms--and surprises--of nature and time.

But the adventurous part took over. So I headed outside before I even read the article...

"Consider daily sitting practice to be a kind of spiritual food." That's a lovely thought. I like food. But what happens when I get hungry?

I have enjoyed using the somewhat cutesy (but memorable) phrase, "an attitude of gratitude." And what did I realize today?

We are suspended between source and resource, comfort and glory...

I laughed out loud. And there it was, my opportunity for shared humor--and shared humanity.

Spooneristic poems about Runny Babbit by Shel SIlverstein plus a different poem: Slip on through the fountain in the moonlit air...

Attributed to William Spooner, who sometimes mixed up letters and words with interesting results: "it is kisstomary to cuss the bride."

From this perspective, to be a beginner is a gift. And what a wonderful way to approach the world, other people and our own psyches.

Words can fly like birds but when you try to catch them, they slither around like fish. Poems by Mary Oliver, David Whyte and a novice poet

Coupled with the beauty & incredible age of those mountains, the silence offered us a way to slip into a different sense of timelessness.

An infinite, cosmic web of interconnection, where every juncture of the threads is a jewel.

The best gifts, by far, are those in which both giver and receiver have great joy.