A Favourite Spot to Simply Sit and Be
Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. – Rachel Carson
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Living a Long time
The secret to a happy and vibrant old age? Strive to do what you love for as long as you can do it.” Jane Brody
Musings on On a May Morning
Nature is a good teacher and a good healer. It is possible to stop and to look! to listen! to smell! to touch!
There is no Life Without suffering – yet…
As for me, I continue to want more of these living, breathing days.
How to Help and Be Helped
This is not the stiff upper lip behavior of the denier; this is grief and tears and agony, but it’s real. We show up for each other, wholeheartedly, and we learn on the job by paying attention, as we live our lives.
Forget Me Nots and Blessings
“Our challenge is not to choose between the fragility and strength of life but to cultivate our wonder by holding both in our heart.” by Mark Nepo
Languishing – an Old Fashioned Word
I think this old-fashioned word, languish, is entirely appropriate to describe these times.
Teahouse Practice
I miss her and I see her everywhere. “…from this window, like the moon, I keep sending news secretly.” Rumi
The Important Concept of Yutori
“Yutori is a kind of living with spaciousness. For example, it’s leaving early enough to get somewhere so that you know you’re going to arrive early, so when you get there, you have time to look around.”Naomi Shihab Nye
Disenfranchised Losses
…disenfranchised grief is made up of the disappointments and losses that are hard to acknowledge, when worse things are happening to others.
