Mindful Moments Blog

Whether something waits for us on the other side of this life is one of the oldest and most personal questions a human being can carry. This is not an attempt to answer it. People of deep faith and people of none have both looked honestly at existence and come to different conclusions, and that…

There is a story, perhaps apocryphal, about a group of macaque monkeys on a small Japanese island. Researchers observed that when one monkey learned to wash sweet potatoes before eating them, others nearby began to do the same. The behavior spread slowly, then reached some kind of threshold, and suddenly the practice appeared in populations…

Saint Valentine didn’t die of a broken heart. He was executed as a martyr for his Christian faith. The love story came later, shaped by poets, culture, and eventually, marketing. That small historical detail doesn’t ruin Valentine’s Day. It simply helps explain how a third-century execution turned into chocolates, dinner reservations, roses, and emotional expectations…

Learning How We Meet What Is Still Unfolding Over the years, during times of moving homes and navigating major life transitions, I’ve noticed something that continues to shape how I meet uncertainty. The outer circumstances often vary, timelines, logistics, negotiations, waiting. What remains surprisingly consistent is how much the experience itself is shaped less by…

We talk often about now as if it were something we could hold. We tell ourselves to “be present,” to “live in the moment,” as though now were a location we could arrive at and remain in. But the moment we try to grasp it, it is already gone. Watch the second hand on a…

There are moments when events in the world land heavily, not because they are new, but because they reveal something enduring about human nature. Writing, in those moments, can serve less as expression and more as careful observation. What follows is offered in that spirit. It seems that the prevailing way views are shared now…

This morning I listened to a 1967 roundtable discussion featuring Alan Watts, Gary Snyder, Timothy Leary, and Allen Ginsberg. You can listen to it here: 👉 Alan Watts – Being in the Way: 1967 Roundtable Discussion It was a moment in history charged with urgency. The United States was deep in the Vietnam War. Protests…