Being mindful. Practicing “mindfulness”. These are the the phrases that have have been hitting me from all sides this past week. From celebrities on the talk shows, to books on the morning news, mindfulness has been the topic of late. Then yesterday, and again today, two different blogs that I follow were about being mindful. . . . → Read More: This Business of Mindfulness
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Today has been a peaceful day. The day started with a yoga class that corrected my body from my weekend meanderings through wine, pizza, and spinach artichoke dip. After lunch and a brief rest, my husband and I finished painting the bedroom. Quiet day. This morning I learned something about quietness from something shared . . . → Read More: About Quietness Yes, TWO posts in ONE day! I do make myself proud! 🙂 Riding back home on the red line to Braintree my daughter texts us “thank you for coming. It was so much fun!” I answer her, then I get to thinking how we came together for a brief few hours, and now we are . . . → Read More: And Off We Go… Today we had tickets to the Yankees/Red Sox game in Boston. We were going to meet our daughter for dinner and the game. The weather didn’t look promising – a certain rainout. At noon we talked to her and discussed meeting places. I was ensconced in my recliner engrossed in the second book of . . . → Read More: The Late-Great Rainout Did you ever have a day where you wake up early, the weather is beautiful and you have a dozen things on your to do list, but the next thing you know it’s 3 PM and you’ve accomplished nothing? That was my day today. I woke up early, played around on the computer, and had . . . → Read More: One of THOSE Days Today in yoga class our instructor had us do a one minute camel, in honor of Mark and Shirley (fellow students), who are away in LA at Bikram training. She told us the story about the first time she did a one minute camel. She said she thought the Bikram police were going to come . . . → Read More: I’m-possible This morning as I began my 400th morning page, I was tired. I was writing about how I didn’t want to go to yoga. In fact, I just wanted to go back to bed. Yesterday I went to yoga, had a full day, and today I just wanted to stop. The thing is, I set . . . → Read More: Hang Onto Consistency Today is word-in-word Wednesday. When I got it this morning, it was another one that caught my attention. When I saw the word OUR inside of sOURce, many thoughts ran through my my that I wanted to share. What is our source of energy? What is our source for creativity? What is our source for . . . → Read More: Word In A Word Day: sOURce.. I read a lot of quotes. I mean a lot – between Facebook and twitter and my daily meditations, a lot of smart things, said by wise people, cross my desk each day. I often thought to myself, “Someday I’m going to say something smart and wise and quote myself”. It finally happened and took . . . → Read More: Durable Goods Yesterday, while cleaning, I came upon a journal I started in the fall of 1980. There were only two entries in it. One from 10/17 and one from 10/26. I wondered why I stopped writing. Then I read the entries. The last one on 10/26 went like this: “I never paid attention to how I . . . → Read More: Now I Know “Where The Years Went” |
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