A Mindful Life

Your Attention, Please
There are about fourteen days in the countdown to departure. I will try to post something daily in the coming week. As of August 9, we’ll disconnect our cable modem. Packers will come mid-week (August 11) to pack one day and load the truck the next. We’ll depart toward [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]