A Mindful Life

According to recent research, older people do not tend toward increased crabbiness with age. If anything, their relationships tend to be more peaceful. The suggestion is that as we get wiser with experience, we spend less time trying to change people into our image and likeness. We spend more time taking people as they are [...]

If I ever get pregnant, I will try to get a bellycast done. What a creative way to commemorate a little one’s arrival! The Inner Reflection site also offers prenatal and post-natal yoga classes, which I understand can be wonderful ways to prepare for birth and develop a relationship with one’s baby. Also worth looking [...]

About love, divine love, whole love: Freedom, in a way, is higher than love. Love gives way to freedom. Love realizes the ascendancy of freedom. Love realizes the peak that freedom is. When you realize your original face, that authentic presence that flows from the vastness of your inner space in one continuous stream to [...]

There are many things to be grateful “for” but, as I ripen with the seasons of life, the many reasons blend into a sacred mystery. And, most deeply, I realize that living gratefully is its own blessing. –Michael Mahoney

When I consolidated myself from two blogs to one, I attempted to structure this site so that the left side revealed more personal information and the right side focused more on broader resources. Increasingly, though, the page feels very text-heavy to me. I’m sure that a few might like the links, but I’ll bet the [...]

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin. –Barbara Kingsolver

I have returned to the blissfully cool yet crowded Silicon Valley. I had a wonderful, nourishing visit to Austin. I am buried under unopened mail, the gardens need weeding, and the larder is empty. It will be a few days yet ’til I get back into a rhythm of posting and reading blogs. As I [...]

There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! –Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination. –John Schaar