Dawn
The sight of the sun rising always fills me with promise and hope even in dark times. As Derek Wolcott puts it in this poem: I may have...
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Endings and Beginnings
Each year at this time I participate in a reflective online retreat with Author, Artist, and Minister, Jan Richardson. Today's blessing,...
10-Day Mindfulness Meditation Challenge
I invite, or better said, I CHALLENGE you to a Ten-Day Mindfulness Stretch into 2023! Open yourself to practices that will help you...
Just Be Nice
Enjoy another inspiring film from Green Renaissance! Meet Morné whose life changed in an instant due to an accident. He shares his story...
May You Walk in Peace
Today I offer a song called "In Beauty May I walk" based on a Navajo prayer set into music by Karen Drucker. The words are a nice fit for...
Returning Home - A Final Mindfulness Lesson
When author Richard Price was questioned why he set the location of his novel, Freedomland, in urban New Jersey eventhough the story was...
The Garden of the Mind
The cover of this New Yorker accurately depicts the gardening brain state I wrote about yesterday. It doesn't matter if I am planting...
Love May Be Our Only Way Out - One Story Away - Part Two
In Part One of the series, "One Story Away From Falling in Love", we explored the work of Envision Kindness. Their mission is...
Kindness
The following poem is from Words Under the Words: Selected Poems by Naomi Shihab Nye. Nye is an award winning writer whose perspective as...
Imagine
Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people living for today Imagine...
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