A Mindful Life

Something I’ve recently begun to do is a little bit of yoga. Not classes, not in a big-time way. I’ve got the The Yoga Deck: 50 Poses & Meditations, which I have found easy to use. I’ve got a few favorites that are easy to do and relieve a lot of tension. There are also [...]

It is not evil.Money symbolizes theexchange of life force. “A Fact of Life” by Kathryn Petro / ©2003

Out of the mouths of babes comes the Dead Cat Test, a true (?) story: A kindergarten pupil told his teacher he’d found a cat.She asked if it was dead or alive.“Dead,” she was informed.“How do you know?”, she asked.“Because I pissed in his ear and it didn’t move,” said the child innocently.“You did WHAT?!?”, [...]

Day is put to bed; the sky paints a lullabye as sweet peace tucks in. Euan Semple ©2003 / The Obvious?

One month ago I put out the word that one of my cats needed a new home. Her fragile mental state made us concerned that she wouldn’t weather the transition, and we learned we were only allowed to have two cats in our new abode. I received numerous comments and emails (some rather mean and [...]

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. –Groucho Marx (Just in case you hadn’t figured it out!)

The other day I met with a friend for tea, and discussion meandered to the topics personal growth and journaling. She hadn’t journaled in a long time and wanted to start again. We tossed around ideas about how to creatively tap into and inspire ourselves in places we feel stuck. I mentioned to her a [...]

I do not object to people looking at their watches when I am speaking. But I strongly object when they start shaking them to make sure they are still going. –Lord Birkett

From Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools by Jonathan Kozol: In Boston, the press referred to areas like these as “death zones” — a specific reference to the rate of infant death in ghetto neighborhoods — but the feeling of the “death zone” often seemed to permeate the schools themselves. Looking around some of these [...]