We always get to choose who to be in any moment. At a fundraiser I attended this week, the moment of choice was more obvious than it often is. In this case, my choice was between being my full adult self and contributing whatever I could from that place. Or, I could be just a…
This week we share with you a post from one of our Enough, Already course participants. Ana writes here to the rest of the cohort inside of the community exploring what is enough. Amazing how the context of our body literally creates our reality… Dear Sufficiency Sisters, So I want to presence an awareness I had…
Overfed and undernourished. This is such a good metaphor for the primary breakdown of our American culture. On a 2000 calorie per day diet, we eat food that is depleted of vital nutrients and mostly dead, over heated, over cooked, over preserved and therefore provides little or no actual nourishment. Starving in a sea of…
Nobody likes to make mistakes. But I really don’t like to make them. I have not liked to make them so much I would not even try, not publicly anyway. For years I paralyzed myself with a fear of failure, linking it to even the smallest of errors. I called it “hiding in plain sight.”…
What societal principles guide our lives? Many of course, and many that are invisible to us. The one that presses most into our lives is the cultural pace, what I like to call the societal metronome. Without any conscious choice our lives are keyed to this cultural metronome that has evolved to a rate that…
Many of us spend a lot, no really a ton, of time in meetings. During a meeting of my client’s I sat in on to observe recently, I noticed no clear requests were made and subsequently no promises either. In the debrief meeting, the first question I asked was, if there was an agenda? There…
Dear Ones: Will this world ever rest in peace? In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing and the incredible trauma it caused for so many, we have been thinking about what to offer to our community. I keep trying to find what I wrote after 9/11, and have felt the discomfort of realizing that…
In yoga class, and other mindful movement forms, we learn that breath directs our attention, and we learn to slow down transitions between postures. I’ve taught yoga and I’ve said such words. Great ideas! Fun in class! But off the mat, I’m not so sure I lived like these truths were true. This spring-time energy…
fail (feyl) to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved (from www.dictionary.com) It doesn’t take us long to develop a comfort zone. Our comfort zone contains those areas where we are reasonably confident we’ll succeed—whatever that means to us. Even as kids we have one and that’s during the time of our lives when we are the most willing to fail. Stepping outside…
My colleague pinged me late last night and asked if I posted a blog. (Monday’s are my posting day.) “No,” I replied, “I have nothing to say.” I mean, I have a few half written blogs and poems in various states of completion, but … nothing feeling urgent. Then I realized: that is it. . . I…