Just Breathe....You Are Enough

Touching Joy

There are many contemplative traditions that emphasize the importance of balance. First Nations traditions - in reference to the Medicine Wheel - will speak of balance, the balance, for …

Roll in the Sand

As some of you know, this week was moving week on the university campus where I teach. Extensive renovations in one of our main office buildings meant that we moved out of that off…

A Blue Moon

This Saturday May 18, at 6:11pm Atlantic Standard Time, is the Blue Moon. It’s the time to do things that you would only do once in a blue moon!

The May 2019 full moon is a seasonal Blu…

Dance into May

In my neck of the woods, in eastern Canada, the midpoint between the spring equinox and the summer solstice will be May 5th, at 2 minutes to 4 o'clock in the afternoon. This is the mom…

Being and Becoming

It's wonderful to be back having taken some time away – at semester’s end - to take a deep breath. Today we explore being and becoming.

I had a wonderful conversation last week w…

Own Your Strength

I received a fun email this week. It said: “Loved seeing a strong woman in a key position of power yesterday. You were fantastic.” Who wouldn't want to celebrate that?

So, today w…

Self-Existing Joy

Where do grown-ups come from? Where do the children go?

It was my great delight this week to make a new acquaintance, the friend of a mutual friend. This person spent an evening w…

Sweetness is the Antidote to Bitterness

It was a week for an unusual amount of baking. For me, this week, there was baking for co-workers, and baking for students, and baking for classroom guests.

Am…

Spring in Your Step!

You can feel it in the air. In my neck of the woods in the north, it's this coming Wednesday March 20th, at 6:58pm,  that we will astronomically cross the line:  the sun will s…

A Man, My Son

I see increasingly in some of my male colleagues and students the sense that, if one is born male (and perhaps especially white, and heterosexual, and male, if one is born into a positi…

Breathe Through Your Heels

“Now, take this huge tree here, son.  If someone were to hack it at the bottom, its living sap would flow.  Likewise, if someone were to hack it in the middle, its living s…

We Celebrate Valentine’s Day

The Space In-Between in Which We All Live

A Reflection of You

Do you try to squeeze yourself into a box that someone – or something - else has shaped for you? Does it feel artificial, contrived, and far too small? Today we reflect, and obser…

The Beginning of the Beginning of Spring

I am told that the North American celebration of Groundhog Day was established in Pennsylvania, with the help of a newspaper story, in 1887. It is said to b…

“To cover all the earth with sheets of leather.

Where could such amounts of leather be found?

But simply wrap some leather around your feet

and it is as if the whole earth had been covered!

Likewis…

The Precious Human Birth….

On Working with Guilt

"This human birth is precious. Our opportunity to awaken.

The body is impermanent and time of death is uncertain.

The cause and effect of karma shapes…

Until the Water Runs Clear

and the Right Action Arises by Itself

Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water runs clear?  Can you remain unmoving until the right action aris…

Weeding is the Way

to Get Weeding Done

Hello everyone! Happy new year!

At the beginning of the new solar year, many people think back to where we have been, and reflect on where we are going. We dr…

The Heart is a Muscle:

It Expands and Contracts

The average resting heart rate is somewhere between 60 and 100 beats per minute.

So, if we imagine an average of 80 beats per minute, your heart will…