A Mindful Life

This photo captures part of the north face of the mountain that blew off laterally in the 1980 eruption. It was a hazy day (pollution?); the late afternoon sun lit the mountain, and the profile looked beautifully desolate.

The volcano is still active, simmering but potent. The report from May 19, 2007 (27 years plus one [...]

Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that’s not true. Some smaller countries are neutral.
–Robert Orben

Yesterday my ticker noted the 100,000th visitor to this blog. Wow! I don’t track my statistics much, but I do think it notable. The visitor was from Austin, Texas, and the visit was at 6:08 p.m. Central time. An Apple computer with Mac OS X and a Safari browser was used (monitor resolution at 1024 [...]

Before heading to the coast after our week of visiting with a relative, we took a couple of day trips inland. One was to Mount St. Helens (photos forthcoming), which is indelibly impressed on me because of its catastrophic eruption on May 18, 1980 (I was 16 at the time and avidly consumed all news [...]

For those who have come to grow, the whole world is a garden. For those who have come to learn, the whole world is a university. For those who have come to know God, the whole world is a prayer mat.
–M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen

After 2,200 miles, we are home. We ended our trip a day early because my pregnant body said “no more!” and Husband got a mild case of food poisoning from a Dungeness crab sandwich. We were totally exhausted and relieved to sleep in our own bed again. Stella was beside herself with our return and [...]

Before I deal with the main topic, I’ll share what I saw on the side of a Goodwill truck:Giving people a chance to hate Monday mornings.
While I know some jobs can be soul-deadening and exasperating, this tagline made me stop and think: some people don’t have any job and would give their eye teeth [...]

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
–Philip Hamerton