Practicing Ease: Doing Then Not Doing
A pause allows body, soul and brain to assimilate the new...
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Easing the Journey Through Shadow & Light
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- Mar 15
- 3 min
A World. I Am a World.
Think millefiori meets interplanetary/biologist/geologist/exquisitely talented glass artist!
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- Feb 15
- 1 min
You Come Too
It has been a day when the memory of a poem--a simple poem, almost a prayer-- elicits gratitude.
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- Jan 18
- 2 min
How to Feel as Good as You Can In Spite of Everything
So enjoy, find some ease, be a little mischievous. Be loose. Be silly.
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- Jan 4
- 2 min
Ease-ment of the Month: Horselips.... Bbbbbbbbbbbbbb!
It's hard to do horselips if you are smiling or laughing, and hard not to laugh if you are doing it. Give it a try.
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- Dec 14, 2022
- 3 min
The Rite of Writing
It seats me right in the middle of this insane and lovely life...
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- Nov 30, 2022
- 4 min
Fixing? Helping? Serving?
Ease from “footies!” Plus life as a patient has deeply informed a physician’s practice. She has distilled this wisdom….
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- Nov 16, 2022
- 3 min
Ease-ment of the Week
These practices can offer a little sense of relief from the stress of living in this crazy world. Most of them are conveniently portable.
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- Nov 2, 2022
- 1 min
Still There Is Much That Is Fair
It's too easy to get caught up in the negativity and anger that surrounds us these days. So today I share images of things fair and simple.
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- Oct 19, 2022
- 3 min
Leaves Falling...On Us
Sometimes they fall on us--that's always fun--but they rarely land exactly where we think they will.
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- Oct 12, 2022
- 4 min
Time of Wonder
His prose is delightful, incorporating a sing-song repetition, rooted in the rhythms--and surprises--of nature and time.
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- Sep 28, 2022
- 3 min
Bon appétit!
"Consider daily sitting practice to be a kind of spiritual food." That's a lovely thought. I like food. But what happens when I get hungry?
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- Sep 14, 2022
- 1 min
A Little Lightness
Anti-Anxiety Tool of the Week: Laugh and Smile Way back in the 1980s in his book, Anatomy of an Illness, Saturday Review editor and...
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- Aug 24, 2022
- 2 min
Sitting and Knowing?
Spooneristic poems about Runny Babbit by Shel SIlverstein plus a different poem: Slip on through the fountain in the moonlit air...
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- Aug 10, 2022
- 4 min
Can I Sew You to Another Sheet?
Attributed to William Spooner, who sometimes mixed up letters and words with interesting results: "it is kisstomary to cuss the bride."
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- Jul 21, 2022
- 3 min
From Before Always
Coupled with the beauty & incredible age of those mountains, the silence offered us a way to slip into a different sense of timelessness.
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- Jun 1, 2022
- 3 min
Catwings
There is a lighter side to Le Guin, however, which she shared in her lovely four-book Catwing series for children.
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- May 11, 2022
- 3 min
Gracious Silence
Some of the sweetest times I've had with another person are those in which we simply sit near each other, without the need to speak.
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- May 4, 2022
- 4 min
It's About Us
Loosen, fingers, loosen your death grip on this very day. Open to the atmosphere of open, drink in large draughts of clear.
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- Apr 20, 2022
- 4 min
The Thing with Feathers
After all these years I'm still amazed when those minuscule seeds grow into plants hundreds of times bigger than their infant selves.
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