In this sacred time…Passover, Easter Week, Spring at hand…I am fasting and spending more time on my mat and more time on my cushion in meditation. It is Retreat Week at Yoga School. We gather on Sunday for three hours and then attend two Hatha classes and two meditations daily during the rest of the [...]
Archive for the ‘Listening’ Category
“Including stealth…”
Posted in Listening, Mary Oliver, Nature, Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Yoga on March 31, 2010 | 9 Comments »
“Deep in silence…”
Posted in Listening, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Rumi, Spirituality, Wholeness, Zen on October 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
It is 5:20 in the morning. A slight mist, cloudy sky, balmy moist air. I am climbing the path to the Chan Hall. I have no idea what to expect. We gather outside in lamplight and silence. We awaken our bodies with movement. The Dharma teacher gives a short talk. We are savoring the question, [...]
“Without being political…”
Posted in Inspiration, Listening, Photo Canvases, Photography, Wholeness on August 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Last night, when I heard Barack Obama’s speech, I wept. Not because I believed his words; his promises; his point-of-view. Not because I identify myself as a democrat, or because I deal in the currency of hope. Not because I want him to be president or because I don’t want him to be president. I [...]
“It’s been too long…”
Posted in Listening, Mary Oliver, Nature, Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Wholeness, Writing on August 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Sometimes life is very full. It used to be, that inspite of all that was going on around me, I would sit down at the end of the day and edit my photos and write my blog. Lately instead, I’ve been organizing the hard drive on my awesome new hand-me-up MAC desktop (thank you so [...]
“The dream remembers us…”
Posted in Family, Listening, Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Wholeness, Writing on June 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
WHAT WE WANT What we want is never simple. We move among the things we thought we wanted: a face, a room, an open book and these things bear our names— now they want us. But what we want appears in dreams, wearing disguises. We fall past, holding out our arms and in the morning [...]
“Beautiful meaning…”
Posted in Listening, Mary Oliver, Nature, Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry on February 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
SNOWY NIGHT Last night, an owl in the blue dark tossed an indeterminate number of carefully shaped sounds into the world, in which, a quarter of a mile away, I happened to be standing. I couldn’t tell which one it was – the barred or the great-horned ship of the air – it was that [...]
“360…”
Posted in Listening, Photo Canvases, Photography, Wholeness, Writing on February 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today is day 360 of blogging…almost consecutive. I find myself reflecting. Photos. Writing. Collecting…selecting writings of others. Carrying the day in my belly. At first…photos, more abstract… These are a few of my favorites…Later, a different point of view… Over the next few days, I’ll spend more time reflecting. In all my years of journaling [...]
“Speak: I am…”
Posted in Inspiration, Listening, Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Wholeness, Writing on February 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In my private practice, I work with courageous people who are determined to create a life of balance, harmony and purpose. Sometimes they arrive in the midst of great suffering…blind to their strength, forgetting their beauty and ignoring the divine within. They are yearning for wholeness, for home, for belonging, for love, for self-expression, for [...]
“Rather than harden…”
Posted in Listening, Pema Chodron, Photo Canvases, Photography, Spirituality, Wholeness, Writing, Yoga, Zen on January 24, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us. The trick to doing this is to stay with emotional distress without tightening into aversion; to let fear soften us rather than harden into resistance. – PEMA CHODRON -
“Reaching out…”
Posted in Dad, Family, Listening, Photo Canvases, Photography, Wholeness, Writing on December 30, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Today is my Mom’s birthday. She would have been 84. This morning Dad calls…he sounds chipper and deceptively sharp. Asks how I am and when we will get together again. I remind him that we were together for Christmas and that we were together in Connecticut at my brother’s house on the day after Christmas. [...]
