A Mindful Life

This is one of the most inspiring and compelling video snippets I have seen in a long time. Please take a moment to go to his site and watch it!
Motivational Message by Nick Vujicic
Maybe I’ll buy the DVD.

It’s a few hours after sunset, but I just found out about this. I’m posting it here and then turning off the computer. Click this link of embed doesn’t work.

Today as Claire sat on her little potty, she announced she wanted to sit on the Big People potty. And that she wanted big-girl underpants. So we went to Target to get an insert to make the regular toilet kid-sized and to find underwear. She chose Hello Kitty and Tinkerbell underpants.
Then after lunch, she tried [...]

Claire turned two-and-a-half on Monday. Tonight Claire wanted to tell a story. She dictated, and I wrote it down word-for-word. Are you ready?
Once upon a time there was a girl named Stacy the Firefighter. She had a dog named Sparky. He was a Dalmatian. They liked to ride the fire engine and make the siren [...]

Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.
-Bill Bryson (A Short History of Nearly Everything)

We want Claire to enjoy nature, and it can be a challenge to find unsullied open spaces close to home. Last weekend we went to Los Gatos Creek Trail to walk. We decided to try the trail head in Los Gatos proper. Well, first parking was a challenge. And then the many people biking and [...]

But I am oh so lucky, fortunate, blessed; nature gave me the biggest gift of my life when I was 44:
Women are born with an average of one to two million eggs in their ovaries, which are shed monthly until menopause, with a 20-year old woman typically having 200,000 eggs.
That number halves as she enters [...]

This morning I went to retrieve Claire from her crib. She’d awoken moments earlier and I heard her talking quietly.
I opened the door, and was greeted with:
“Oh, Mommy, please go back to bed! I have to tell my friends about the time Piglet and I forgot to go to the grocery store.”
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She watches a show [...]

Life is competitive around here. It is everywhere, but I feel it especially here — in the play group, among other parents in general, especially when the topic of education comes up. Last year, four Gunn High School students in Palo Alto committed suicide by stepping in front of trains; already one child committed suicide [...]