I have to remember that the real goal here is to share MY journey. So forgive me if sometimes I digress into some moments where I sound like a teacher. I have a natural inclination to teach and did so for 3 years in high school English. I did a lot of teaching in my […]
Day 12- Multi-tasking, Sin #8/7 Deadly Sins
That Moment! That moment when you realize, somewhere right before you are about to sit down FINALLY to relax or maybe even climb into bed, that…OH! I forgot something important I have to do, and it cannot wait until tomorrow. Yep, that was me tonight when I realized I almost forgot today’s post. Phew! I’m […]
Day 11-Not Nonsense! It’s A Beginner’s Mind
There is a place within each of us, perhaps conscious, awake, and alive or instead buried beneath the muck of hurt and trauma. That place, if we can be in it is called Shoshin or the Beginner’s Mind. In Buddhist teachings, to not know the answer and to be aware of it is the desired […]
Day 10- It’s a Pretty Chill Day, and That’s Okay
Most days, we find ourselves running around with errands, chores, and things that “must” be done. What if every once in a while, we gave ourselves permission to do nothing. How would that feel? In the last three years, I began to learn the joys of not always being the captain of chaos. My entire […]
Day 9- Let’s Celebrate Day 9!
Why not celebrate just because it’s day 9? You made it to another day, and anytime you wake up above the ground and your name isn’t in the obituaries, it is cause for celebration. Personally, I think we spend a lot of time feeling down because we feel like someone else put us there. Not […]
Day 8- Create Your Own Happiness
At times when our country seems so divided by politics, enraged and bitter so much that even grandmothers are posting hate speech on social media, it can be pretty difficult not to feel despair and a lack of hope. Days when we should be celebrating each other such as a birthday get buried in the […]
Day 7- Have You Hugged a Tree Today?
My message today is pretty simple. Love. The events on Capital Hill yesterday, and then the onslaught of negative speak from both sides on social media illustrated plainly how much pain our country is in. The anger projected out from us is causing great harm to our culture. Plainly, if we don’t begin to show […]
Day 6- How Do YOU Share Love?
Last night I watched Minimalism: A Documentary About The Important Things. Minimalism is a practice I’ve been implementing into my own life over the last year, and it occurred to me that in order to be more open and conscious we might need to talk about some minimalism for the soul. However, physical minimalism is […]
Day 5- The Challenges of Openness
What does it mean to be open? Well, first I want to meander back to the idea of consciousness again. Essentially, the simplest way to think about consciousness in a more concrete way is to think about being unconscious or “knocked out”. When a boxer knocks out another boxer, they become unconscious. Essentially, not awake […]
Day 4 What Do I Mean By Consciousness?
We all have a beginning, a middle, and an ending story that is different from everyone else’s. A lot of what happens in the middle masks who we are the moment we are born. What do I mean by consciousness? For me, it’s that place the moments after we take our first breaths in the […]