For the past three years, I have been sitting with the idea that it is the questions that are important, not the answers. Today I realized I have been waiting for an answer about joy and sorrow.
Being Human, First and Foremost
A very wise man told me once to give myself more grace because we are all imperfect. Through his example, he taught me to keep placing myself back on my intended path even after I mess up. I don’t really want to be perfect – what I really want is to be human.
Echoes of Mom’s suffering
My mom died at the end of 2006, just after her 60th birthday. She died of a rare kind of small intestine cancer, but actually she died of kidney failure as a result of starvation after her innards refused to pass food for a while. She died in the manner…
The milling exercise: good for families?
I’m reading this book about anger called “The Cow in the Parking Lot – A Zen Approach to Overcoming Anger” and it’s written by a lawyer, Leonard Scheff (with Susan Edmiston) who felt that the Zen talks on anger sort of miss the mark with most Americans and he needed…
What would a day without expectations be?
Okay, maybe that concept is a little too abstract even for the most “zen” among us, but let’s try this: What if we picked a day and, when asked for our preference/order/decision on something that day, instead described the outcome we’d prefer in more general terms? We could call it…
On expectations and blessings
This morning while sitting in silence with the Quakers, I began to explore the extent and impact of expectations in my life. What are the kinds of events/things/people/relationships we expect in our life? How do they steer our daily existence and our opportunities? Do they give us hope or do…
January progress report on my life
I feel as though I am waking from a long and troubled winter’s sleep. Christmas was a hard time for me though I do feel I injected some hope into the season which will help me have a better holiday next year. I was not suicidal and I don’t need…
Visiting OSGrid
My experience with OSGrid was a short one because I couldn’t move around very well.
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