(Wonderfully) out of my element
Remember when I said I was going to create Song Lyric Wall Art? Well, here’s the thing about that. I wanted to do it for the sheer, unmitigated, be-a-beginner-create-without-expectation-look-what-I-made magic of it. But because I’m not a crafty person (please don’t argue, I know crafty people, I am not one), I knew the only way […]
Read MoreFierce In Pink: a love letter
I’m writing love letters in October. Every Monday, I post one here… ~~~~~~~~~~ Dear Impossibly Beautiful Golden Haired Girl in the Pink Leggings and Hello Kitty Top, Your laughter, adorable and fierce, catches me off guard. I turn to find the source and there you are. Know this: there are few things more dazzling than […]
Read MoreP.S. I love you
As part of the Love Project, I’ve written a love letter to myself, letters to strangers, and letters to friends. I like writing them for the pause they entail, the gentle sifting through and reordering of my sweet, jumbled emotions, like lifting a sheet from a clothesline, shaking it out, smelling soap and sun and […]
Read MoreThe best love
According to the Love Project’s big, fat master plan, October was The Month of Seeing. All month I focused on making the most of my day-to-day interactions with strangers. In stores, in restaurants, at Starbucks and the library, I made eye contact. I smiled. I engaged people in conversation, asking questions, listening to their answers, […]
Read MoreWhat the detox taught me
So, just as I told you I would (in hindsight, perhaps inadvisably), last week I embarked on a one-week Yoga Journal detox program. It involved the same recipe for all my meals, abstinence from caffeine and alcohol, daily prescribed yoga practices, two guided meditations performed four times during the course of the week, early risings […]
Read MoreSugar Love
Monday I posted, among other things, a series of tweets by Sugar at the Rumpus that I thought were important. She spoke of feeling protective of the people who write her letters and said how hard it is for her to read comments from people who criticize them. At the time I posted, I hadn’t […]
Read MoreNavigating the Digital Landscape with the Samsung A03s
Once upon a time in the world of smartphones, there lived a humble device known as the Samsung A03s. It wasn’t the flashiest or the most cutting-edge phone in the kingdom of technology, but it had a charm that was hard to resist. This is the story of the Samsung A03s, a phone that quietly […]
Read MoreWordplay
Recently, a friend wrote me a note that included, among other wonderful treasures, the word “proprioception.” It’s five syllables AND I had to look it up. I admit, I was dazzled. I sent a suitably swoony reply. It made me think about my emotional, sometimes visceral reactions to words, and how those reactions aren’t always […]
Read MoreHow Life Works
I’ve been thinking about the dance we humans are forever engaged in, the one in which all the steps are either about holding on or letting go, and the most complicated (beautiful) sequences of all involve doing both at the same time. Recently, I was talking to my friend about parenthood. I told her that, […]
Read MoreThe things we just know
In Jack Kornfield’s book on meditation, A Path With Heart, he tells about counseling a woman whose husband had died. The woman and her husband had been active in a number of different spiritual communities, and in the aftermath of his death, members from all of those communities rushed to comfort her. Their words of comfort […]
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