In this world, many people will try to define you. Your parents will ascribe certain qualities to you, reflections of who they are or who they hope they were. For many years, my parents called me shy – as it turns out, I am not shy, I was just trying to be who they told …
So much of the time in our lives we are struggling for balance. Do we work late or early to try to catch up because otherwise we feel pursued at work? Do we start our morning with exercise or with writing? Do we spend time with friends or with family? So many decisions. A manager …
There have been times in my life when I have felt fear. Fear of loss, when I was unable to reach my mother when she was abroad in late 2001. Fear of embarrassment, when I was placed in situations where I didn’t know anyone and was asked to pretend to be someone that I didn’t …
I’ve been recently following a guided meditation that uses a mountain as a focus point. Picture a mountain vividly, then take that mountain inside you, and experience the times of day, the seasons as the mountain. Powerful storms buffet you, changes happen around you, and you continue to stand, firm and rooted, unchanging at the …
On certain Saturdays during the school year, I read to second graders in a school under the Manhattan Bridge. I love to walk down, get the blood pumping, breathe deeply of the cool air. As I get closer, the day is just waking up, huge delivery trucks dropping off boxes of groceries, tiny forklifts carrying …
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