Embracing the Blues

According to the calendar and gardening podcasts, spring should be bursting out soon, but I’m not seeing too many signs of it right now.

The Toothpick Man

I remembered some advice I heard when I had small kids: “Catch your child doing something right.”

Teaching a Cat to Bark

The idea of radically accepting “what is” requires letting go of how we think things should be…and getting on with “loving what is.”

Wholeheartedness and Impact

Imagine a small gesture to impact this world and those in it some way, each day. What is one thing you could do, right now, to begin?

RIP Aunt Tita

As Aunt Tita shows us, what matters most to human beings is a connection to others — belonging to a community and caring for it.

I Can Hardly Say the Word!

Two things are always true: not shielding myself from the sorrow in the world and allowing the profound blessings of life to be present.