It’s National Donut Day. Is there any better time to celebrate life’s most important pastry in the world with a cup of java or a cold glass of milk? It’s impossible to be depressed around donuts in my life, unless…
Ode to Donuts
Category: Relationships
Letting Go: Ending Regret
There is a certain amount of dualism in studying two subjects at the same time; first, I started reading the Buddhist philosopher, Thich Nhat Hanh, who writes of mindfulness, prayer, peace and love. On the other hand, I am studying…
7 Steps to Increase Your Joy
Wake up in the morning, silence the alarm and sit up in your bed. Stop right there. How are your emotions as you stretch, rub your eyes and think “it’s today already?” This is the deciding moment, when you set…
Just Breathe
You feel the tense ache in your shoulders, that ache in your chest that tells you anxiety has crept into your day. Maybe your muscles are tight, your hands clenched. For just a moment stop and notice…are you holding your…
From Here to There: The Art of Letting Go
Perhaps you’ve never thought of your emotional pain in the sense of an art or an emotion that had color, texture or substance. For the purpose of this visual exercise, we’re going to imagine that you’ve come to this space…
Serenity
Today is a day deeply steeped in faith. For what purpose, you might ask? Life. I’m in faith for the moments and the hours of not only my life, but of the people I love, the friends that grace me…
Encouragement: The Journey, The Prize
In the middle of the night, the sounds and the shadows outside of my window take on a whole different life. It was not so long ago that I would have encourages someone like me to stay in the light…
The Wise Owl
The Owl has returned, and with it, my knowledge that the world runs through a power greater than mine. Still, he always finds his way home, the little owl. It is one of the ways that I know that summer…
From Addictive Foundations…Letting Go is Complicated
Life, they say, is complicated. Have you found yourself wondering how to let go, come to center, end the emotional roller coaster? Ever wonder who “they” is, and how the rules of life are set? Really, the right, wrong, should,…
More than Enough
More than enough. It’s been the thought on my mind all day, where a deep sense of longing and loss have met with gentle acceptance and a swell of real, tangible hope. It feels like my eyes have been opened…
Rain
It’s raining outside my office window, great sheets of water falling from a suddenly darkened sky. That is one of the things that I love about May; everything changes from my view here by the window. A break in the…
Choose Life
Music to listen to Perfect by P!nk Choose Life. It’s not a hard concept…so why don’t we do it more often? Life is a huge, beautiful, messy proposition. Life is painful at times. It throws curve balls. Life is adventure,…
Don’t Panic
Douglass Adams, my very favorite author of all time, died on this day in 2001. That’s a fast ten years, given that I remember where I was the day I heard he passed on. He’s the 17th highest ranked search…
Am I Love?
Am I love? As I love you, I love you, all in and without reservation. There is nothing left for me but to be wholly in and invested in you. I long to be together to feel grace and truth collide…
