A Mindful Life

A bit of fun via Rob’s Amazing Poem Generator, based on this blog’s contents. A poem and injuries. I have extreme eating disorders. And burn trip treats, sedatives, litter pan liners, etc. Oh, and abundant seasons. One attends graduate school to serve others to Spirituality & Religion | Technology Recreation Currently Reading if a fascinating [...]

Growing up in Syracuse, I would see public service announcements on T.V. for the local hotline service, called CONTACT. I made use of that service on more than a few occasions as a teen and young adult. I wanted to volunteer, but I didn’t have the spare time. The intensive training program and minimum 12 [...]

…you might appreciate this. It was forwarded by my Mom, so it’s on the Catholic Mothers Approved Humor List. Guaranteed not to offend! (I hope.) Amen: The only part of a prayer that everyone knows. Bulletin: Your receipt for attending Mass. Choir: A group of people whose singing allows the rest of the congregation to [...]

I grapple, struggle to extend my boundaries– testing existence. “Breaking Limits” by Cory Jurgensmeier ©2003 / ephotograph.com

We arrived safe and sound on Monday, August 16, 72 hours after leaving Austin. Tomorrow the truck will arrive to unload our belongings. The cats have been in the house since Monday and are making themselves quite at home. After today (when we check out of the hotel) I probably won’t have Internet access for [...]

Time Flies It’s time. Waiting is over. The Big Move is about to begin. I’ll be disconnected from the Internet (*gasp*) for an indeterminate length of time while we move from Austin to Santa Clara. There, with beginner’s mind, I will explore my new life, and I’ll post about the resources and interesting things I [...]

My heart is by now in its rightful place, in proximity to my hands, which are made to reach out, as I write, to all those around me, the living and the ancestral dead, clarifying the struggle for myself, and perhaps as well for others. –Alice Walker, from Anything We Love Can Be Saved

When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, “Ah,” you are participating in divinity. –Joseph Campbell

There is no defense against an open heart and a supple body in dialogue with wildness. Internal strength is an absorption of external landscape. We are informed by beauty, raw and sensual. Through an erotics of place our sensitivity becomes our sensibility. –Terry Tempest Williams, “Yellowstone: The Erotics of Place,” from An Unspoken Hunger The [...]

A slight push against flimsy wood–what mystery might hide behind it? “A La Puerta” by Mari Burlingame ©2003 / ephotograph.com