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The animals who share our lives
Read more: The animals who share our livesHello, friends, One of the things mindfulness has taught me is that a meaningful life is often made up of very ordinary moments. A quiet cup of coffee.A walk when the leaves are changing.Someone we love sitting beside us. And sometimes, that someone has four legs, fur, feathers, or a habit of taking up considerably…
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Maybe Alan Watts was right: we aren’t materialistic enough!
Read more: Maybe Alan Watts was right: we aren’t materialistic enough!Alan Watts once made an observation that has stayed with me. Traveling across America he noticed something paradoxical —a society that calls itself materialistic but demonstrates almost no genuine care for material things. Broken down cars in driveways. Tools rusting in yards. Neighborhoods that look like decade-long collections of abandoned intention. ‘We don’t value matter’,…
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The Wavy Line Between Yin and Yang
Read more: The Wavy Line Between Yin and YangMy friend Sarah made me a necklace. I had ordered a yin yang pendant from her weeks ago and given her no explicit direction at all. No sketch, no Pinterest board, no color preference. I simply knew Sarah. I’ve known her for years, and I know her heart is full of love, compassion and empathy.…
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Stepping Stone or Stumbling Block?
Read more: Stepping Stone or Stumbling Block?Larry’s dear friend, Gordon, once asked a question I’ve never forgotten: Are you a stepping stone or a stumbling block in the lives of others? It’s a simple question. But it has a way of staying with you. Yesterday on our morning walk, Larry and I met an elderly woman on the trail. She noticed…
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To the Protesters, the Dissenters, and the Broken Hearted — This Is for You
Read more: To the Protesters, the Dissenters, and the Broken Hearted — This Is for YouIf you are watching the world right now and feeling the weight of it — this is written for you. Across the globe, people are standing up for what they believe in. Protesters, dissenters, advocates for justice and freedom. The impulse behind that movement is often beautiful — a genuine love for human dignity, a…
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A Free Mindfulness Resource, Anytime, Anywhere
Read more: A Free Mindfulness Resource, Anytime, AnywhereSomewhere along the way, stillness became a luxury. We live in a time of relentless demand. The notifications, the news, the obligations, the mental noise of a world that rarely pauses. Most of us are running on empty in ways we have normalized so thoroughly we no longer recognize them as depletion. We call it…
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Of All the Things I’ve Lost Recently, I Miss My Mind the Most
Read more: Of All the Things I’ve Lost Recently, I Miss My Mind the MostLarry spent an entire morning looking for a set of pliers. He was certain he had just set them down. He retraced his steps, checked every surface, muttered things I will not repeat here, and finally found them in the laundry basket. The laundry basket. We still do not have a good explanation for that…
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What Mindful Eating Taught Me That the Scale Never Could
Read more: What Mindful Eating Taught Me That the Scale Never CouldI spent years doing everything right and nothing working. At 65, with menopause behind me and autoimmune disease as a daily companion, I found myself carrying 40 pounds of weight that would not move. Not for lack of trying. I ate a largely vegetarian diet. I avoided high fat and high sugar foods. I tracked,…
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Mindfulness Was Not the Fix. And That Was the Point.
Read more: Mindfulness Was Not the Fix. And That Was the Point.I did not come to mindfulness looking for peace. I came to it looking for a way to live with pain.Two back surgeries and a neck surgery will do that. When the body becomes the problem, you start paying attention to it differently. That search led me to a 13-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course…
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Beginner’s Mind in a Nation at a Crossroads
Read more: Beginner’s Mind in a Nation at a CrossroadsA few days ago I read the words of a public figure wrestling openly with a question many of us are quietly holding. With America approaching 250 years, he asked whether celebration is the right response when so much of what we see feels like a departure from what we understand as the values this…
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