Sometimes meditation reveals to you the emotions that you aren’t letting yourself recognize. For me, right now, that emotion is anger. Last week, I tried to bake brownies and discovered I only had one of the ingredients. I complained to my sister, who – although living on rural teacher’s salaries – sent me a care …
Yesterday was a little stressful. One of my colleagues coughed through a whole meeting. Another laughed as he shared that he had developed ansomia, the inability to smell or taste anything. But the worst thing that happened all day was that a meeting was cancelled and I suddenly had an empty hour on my calendar. …
The kind of conversation right now that bothers me is not where to find toilet paper or how many people managed to escape NYC for the Hamptons, the Catskills, or Florida before the lock-down. The kind of conversation that bothers me is people speculating how long we’ll be sheltering in place. Assuming that it will …
Sometimes it is easier to let go of panic if we think of others. I know that I am more grounded when someone else needs me; knowing that helps me hold it together through a crisis. Here is a simple meditation you can do to remember to care for others in a crisis: First, sit …
We all respond in times of crisis differently. A woman I know is an infectious disease specialist. She has been called back from sabbatical early to take the lead for her hospital in preparing. Her husband, also a doctor, is treating people. Their daughter is home from Harvard, forced to evacuate with all her dorm …
