A Mindful Life

Oh, do go read this sweet story about the kindness of a stranger. It presents a counterpoint to my self-portrait post last week about how cruel people can sometimes be. And I’m glad to see Jen is back to blogging!

Photos taken at the Coyote Point Museum (separated by a pane of glass from photographer). Burrowing owls have disappeared from significant portions of their range in the last 15 years and overall nearly 60% of the breeding groups of owls known to have existed during the 1980s had disappeared by the early 1990s. We describe [...]

It was spring on the streets, but February on people’s faces. –Bill Bryson, Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe Maybe this world is another planet’s hell. –Aldous Huxley

Dear Readers, I would just like to say thank you. Thank you for caring about me, for devoting some of your precious moments to stopping by just to see what I have to say. Some of you even visit daily! Thank you for making the effort to connect by way of emailing or leaving a [...]

When I came home from work, I found: Inside the card said, “And that means everything to me.” Husband also wrote a sweet note. He’s not one given to romantic fluorishes, so these occasional cards mean a lot to me. The man also knows another way to my heart. Look below!

I have chin of stature, an assertive chin. I’m not fond of how pointy it is at some angles, but it is what it is. And according to my husband, it serves as a crucial barometer of our relationship. Over the years he has been able to determine the level of my pissed-offed-ness (not a [...]

It is late. I am exhausted. I’m astonished at the responses my self-portrait post generated. I seem to have touched a nerve. I appreciate all the comments! I’m also very grateful that I was featured in the first issue of The Big Fat Carnival, which was posted on February 8. I’m in section two: Body [...]

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of “spirit” over matter. –Susan Sontag

This month’s challege is to “embrace the mistakes, love the ugly bits.” You are looking at my legs: chunky, sturdy, burdened with fat. They are scarred, dimpled with cellulite, and generally under-appreciated. For many years I hated my body, especially my legs. When I was in 9th grade, I had a severe crush on a [...]