A Mindful Life

My father-in-law-to-be and I share a passion: dark chocolate. When I was visiting I made sure to keep him supplied with a steady dose. He sends me humorous email on the topic, and I found this one quite funny. The Hormone Hostage knows that there are days in the month when all a man has [...]

Remember how your parents or other adults would admonish you as a child? Close your mouth when you eat. Chew your food! How many of us grew up with an evening ritual of sitting down together, at one table, for a meal? In my family, this was a daily event. Dinner (or supper) typically happened [...]

Movement captured in the curve of glacial stillness; temporal fossil. “Frozen In Time” by Rosemary Richcreek ©2003 / ephotograph

You Reading This, Be Ready Starting here, what do you want to remember?How sunlight creeps along a shinging floor?What scent of old wood hovers, what softenedsound from outside fills the air? Will you ever bring a better gift for the worldthan the breathing respect that you carrywherever you go right now? Are you waitingfor time [...]

There’s a self expansive aspect of gratitude. Very possibly it’s a little known law of nature: the more gratitude you have, the more you have to be grateful for. –Elaine St. James

Save the earth. It’s the only planet with chocolate.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. –C.G. Jung [found at Chad's]

Colors like a pulse; Heat, and light, and air abound. Feast, and feast again. “Quechuan Woman in Pisac, Peru Potato Market” by Elliot Field ©2003 / ephotograph

who is this existence who puts sadnessin your heart who is this soulwho sweetens your griefas soon as you crawl the one who first frightens youwith deadly snakesbefore opening the treasure vault who changes a monsterto an angela sorrow to happiness who gives the blindwisdom andinner sight who changes darknessto lightthistles to flowers who sheds [...]

Ah, Bill Bryson. He knows how to tickle the funny bone. I drove on to Grand Teton National Park. And there’s another arresting name for you. Tetons means tits in French. That’s an interesting fact — a topographical tit-bit, so to speak — that Miss Mucous, my junior-high-school geography teacher, failed to share with us [...]