A Mindful Life

The World Doesn’t Want to be Saved. The world is a teeming mishmash of cultures with a bewildering array of values and ideologies engaged in their own version of the good life. People are generally not interested in changing the metaphors through which they view the world, so real understanding between groups with conflicting viewpoints [...]

At 6:45 a.m., A pedestrian who was struck and killed by a Caltrain in Mountain View this morning apparently tried to “beat the train” at a grade crossing even as the arms were down, with lights blinking and bells ringing, a Caltrain spokesman said today. Palo Alto Online News This was the 12th fatality of [...]

I wait, then cease to wait. Earth rolls repeatedly through day and night. Layer of time. The frost binds. Then snow, that friendly meteor. Kindly mantle of infant vegetation. Insulating all of us who cling to the soil. Who have not got too upright, too far from the native horizontal. Earth beneath me throbs with [...]

Age is not intolerable if your shins are warm. –Verlyn Klinkenborg, Timothy, or, Notes of an Abject Reptile

Oh my goodness, I am a woman in motion. In a previous post I mentioned possible volunteer jobs I wanted to look into and getting more involved at the UU church in Palo Alto. UUCPA has a talent/volunteer survey on their site one can download and complete. It’s a way to explore how to become [...]

I felt domestic on Sunday evening. The rains came, and the cool gray weather made me feel like nesting. So I baked bread! These are whole wheat baguettes. I haven’t baked bread in at least seven years. It was delicious with butter. In fact, I daresay it was the best bread I’ve ever eaten!

Sleep eludes me this week. And this is a week when I need to go to San Francisco four of the five days, and I have three projects to lead on the weekend. Oh please, Mr. Sandman, I really need your magic.

My horoscope from Rob Breszny. Is your schedule too rigid to allow magic to seep in? Then mutate that schedule, please. Is your brain so crammed with knowledgeable opinions that no fresh perceptions can crack their way in? Then flush out some of those opinions. Is your heart so puckered by the stings of the [...]

…made me cry. In a good way. (It’s short — under four minutes.) If the video doesn’t work for you here, go to Free Hugs. [I'm glad I stopped by Grey Matter Gruel this evening.]

I made bread tonight. It feels like winter.