About this time last year, my husband and I purchased our first home, and this spring is the first chance we have had to begin a garden. The repetitive action of raking and shoveling offers the perfect space for meditation and reflection. After a year of being ignored, our garden space had become overgrown and infested. Even the plants that Read more…
Ok, will you take 5 minutes and try something with me? Awesome. We will break this down into steps so we are both on the same page: Ok, take one of your hands and raise it in the air with your arm stretched out like you are waiting for your teacher to call on you to answer a question in Read more…
This week, I want to share a five minute video by poet Tanya Davis, called “How to Be Alone.” Her message is beautiful, relevant (to both genders), and the graphics of the video make it enjoyable and easy to watch. I have some poem excerpts and thoughts below. Please watch and share. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7X7sZzSXYs?rel=0] {A video by filmmaker, Andrea Dorfman, and Read more…
I was enjoying an evening with someone very special to me the other night. I was content in the moment, just being with him. The feeling of allowing someone in, of being with someone, is what being human is all about. I am trying to think of how best to describe this feeling to you. In that moment, the only thing Read more…
Everyone loves to tell you to just “be yourself,” as if you are living your life in purposeful avoidance of doing just so. It may even seem that the harder you try to “be who you are,” the further you are from it. How does one exactly go about this task? Born and raised in the same city (Lexington), I Read more…
