There is nothing in this world harder than letting go. Right now I am watching a lot of people having trouble with letting go, and I am having trouble letting go, too. Letting Go of Mom I watch my mother, who has been in the process of letting go for the last 5 years, starting …
Some mornings I get up with an idea in my head. The idea pursues me through my morning shower, my preparation for meditation, and buzzes around in my head distracting me while I am trying to be present in the now. It can hardly wait for me to finish meditating so it can pour itself …
I had a good night last night. Last night, I presented my 10th speech at my Toastmasters Club. The 10th speech, in Toastmasters, is a milestone speech. When you join Toastmasters, you receive a workbook that lays out the first 10 speeches that you will give. They progress in skill, from just getting up and …
In the mornings now, after meditation, I am reading a chapter – just one – of Pema Chodron’s Welcoming the Unwelcome. Usually, I plow through books, inhaling them in one gulp and exhaling them at the end with a sigh of regret that they lasted so little time. Allowing myself to read one chapter a …
Right now, I think I have at least four books going, two on my bedside table, that I'm reading before falling asleep and four in my office, two of which I need to read for work, one which I started on a day off this summer and never finished, and one which I put there …
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