Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
No matter what happened yesterday what you do today will change tomorrow. #QuickQuote #PrettyPic
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Motivation
All I See Is Your Courage
When I listen to people talking about their challenging experiences (especially friends who are battling addictions) their voices often seem to convey guilt or shame. They seem to say – sometime with and sometimes without words – that they feel defeated, overwhelmed, or weak. In a word, I guess I hear regret. Recently, as I
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What Does Your New Habit Smell Like?
If you’re trying to build habits, I have two bits of advice: 1.) Start TINY Tiny habits are the building blocks of days and years and lifetimes. I never fully appreciated the power of tiny habits until I heard B J Fogg talk and teach on the subject. I wholeheartedly recommend his Tiny Habits method
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The Nose Knows
Many years ago, my sister had epileptic seizures for a while. Hers were called temporal lobe seizures and they were usually preceded by an olfactory hallucination, or the sensation of smelling a scent which was not present. The scents she would often “smell,” just before her brain caused her to blackout, would often be a
There is a Crack in Everything
This morning a curious quote came to mind after I had spent a couple moments observing the bleeding hearts* in my garden. It’s actually a line from Leonard Cohen’s “Anthem.” “There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” So I am not sure if or how
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Fighting Mad?
(Trigger warning: abusive relationships) It remains a mystery why – under certain circumstances – we allow harm to come to ourselves. I think everyone does it in one way or another. Even getting complacent about clicking the seatbelt when ‘it’s just a short trip’ invites unnecessary risk of harm. Certainly when addiction is concerned it
Hope
Hope is a choice and often it is a choice that may not seem sensible in the face of facts. But when we choose hope, things change. Open doors appear where only walls had been. It may not be that the facts or circumstances have changed so much as our perspective has. Possibilities exist which
Of Mornings, Dew, and All Things New
This weekend I had an opportunity to hear an extraordinary organist (Dr. Robin Dinda) perform an improvisation on “Morning Has Broken,” and the tune – while always a favorite – has been dancing, or perhaps tiptoeing, through my head. This morning as I drove a familiar route I was wooed into the woods to snap
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Friday, Fun, Phones, and the Fourth
Today, I’m changing the ring tone on my mobile to a song that will amuse me. I’m investing a minute of my morning to click on a couple keys and change the sound my phone makes when someone calls me. Who cares? Me. I care and I know (from my past experience) that even if
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Of Grackles, Labradorite, and People Too!
Over the weekend on three occasions in three different places, I saw grackles. Of course, at this time of year, seeing birds is not unusual, but grackles aren’t that common around here. This week I rediscovered a small collection of labradorite stones that I had stashed away. I observed a similarity between grackles and labradorite.
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Does Hope Hide?
I guess this may be a continuation of an idea I wrote about recently. Sometimes it seems like the woods woos us to come, to look, to listen, to wander and ponder. So does it seem to you that sometimes hope is hiding? Requiring you to move, to go, to stoop, to kneel, to stretch?
Happy Earthday to You
This weekend, countless earthlings will mark Earth Day with celebrations of various sorts. On a personal level, every day the Earth offers us a chance to be still, to seek communion with nature, to be grounded. Perhaps it is in the quiet of the woods or the rhythmic sounds of the surf that we can
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Listen, My Children, And You Shall Hear…
… Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. April is National Poetry Month and this particular April date will always make me remember an epic poem that my mother was required to memorize as a child. My mother was a teacher by vocation and her desire to teach was evident in her child-rearing, even before
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One Small Step
Today tens of thousands of marathon runners will brave the elements (and even the memories of a bombing eight years ago) to compete in the 124th Boston Marathon. Ask any of them if one small step matters and you will hear a doubtless and resounding “Yes!” There are lots of steps to such journeys and
BJ Fogg’s Tiny Habits Bring BIG Changes
Our days and nights are filled with small actions which we perform routinely, often without conscious thought. Those little bits of life are often the drivers which keep us moving, learning, living, and earning. So much of life consists of tiny habits! If there are aspects of our lives that we want to change, we really
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