After a looooong day, the last thing you need is to come home and worry terribly that your spouse is about to expire from lack of breath. It happens every year, but this year, after all the pollen here - worst in years and years and years - it's been a nightmare, and the congestion it has caused is second to none ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a day that almost fooled you into thinking Spring had sprung. A beautiful sunny day with just the right amount of warmth to lift spirits, and allow us to feel the spirit of hope. After so many days of gloomy rain, where even those of us that like the rain were more than ready to see an end to it, it was a welcome relief. Still the ( Read more... )

As I write this, I am still trying to get my thoughts and feelings together into comfortable little niches all of their own. They aren't cooperating though, resisting the almost desperate urging to settle, to let me come up with a coherent opinion on a movie I have waited for for what feels like forever I keep contradicting myself, and swinging ( Read more... )

From The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.

If you come to a fork in the road,
take it.
--Yogi Berra

We are beautifully limited creatures, capable of great moments of full living, but we can't have it all or experience it all. I finally gave in to being sick today and all but for about 4 or 5 hours ( Read more... )

From The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.

I envy the tree,
how it reaches
but never holds.

We can't stop life from flowing. So we are left with feeling what was and what is, and we call the difference loss.These two sentences leaped off the screen and really made me pay attention to the words ( Read more... )

From The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.

Only love, with no thought of return,
can soften the point of suffering.

The quiet miracle of love is that without our interference, it, like water, accepts whatever is tossed or dropped or placed into it, embracing it completely.We watched a movie today ( Read more... )

From The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.

Another name for God
Is surprise.
-Brother David Steindl-Rast

It seems that any moment of interest or pain or adversity can surprise us into the larger totality of life, breaking our current limits and allowing us the chance to redefine ourselves in regard ( Read more... )