How to make your resolution stick, aka I think I’m catching on
“There’s a push and another push, the necessary dyings, the ground crumbling that lets wildflowers come up.” – Rumi The last day of January seems fitting to talk once again about resolutions or intentions, whichever you prefer, since by this time, folks have either tucked them away for another day or are making some headway. In my last post on looking back at the gifts received in the previous cycle, I indicated that while my resolution-setting process looked much the same as in previous years, the outcome was actually quite different. Much to my surprise, instead...
Read MoreLetting the sunrise and ocean instruct – Myrtle Beach, SC 12/23/11
I have always loved the ocean, I suppose in part because my family spent their annual vacation there throughout my childhood. I loved being in the water, letting the waves carry me to shore and plunging back out again. I could play for hours on end; what delight! My parents now live on the coast and I am often only back for the holidays, and I find each year I’m drawn more and more to the solitude of the beach in the winter time. This year we had an unexpected invitation to spend some time in Myrtle Beach, SC, away from everyone’s regular schedules and holiday busy-ness. Very grateful...
Read MoreEngaged or just busy?
One of the things I often say in my yoga classes is that I’m only ever talking to myself, instructing my students on what it is I need to learn. Sure glad they’re there! So, true to form, my last blog entry was about slowing down and turning inward during this season, making these weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas a sacred time by paying attention. Mere days later, I was rushing out the door on a Sunday morning (supposedly my day off) to hear one of my teachers, Douglas Brooks, even saying to my husband, “I’m trying to do too much at once.” I’m walking towards the...
Read MoreTis the season
This is my favorite time of year. I love the cloak of the early-descending darkness which invites a turning inward as nature is moving into a state of dormancy where so much is happening under the surface. In the Christian calendar, the Sunday after Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the season of Advent. While I no longer practice in this tradition, this time of preparing the way for the Light that comes in the midst of darkness resonates strongly with me. For me it is a time to look back at the year gone by, to take an accounting, so to speak, of all of the blessings, challenges,...
Read MoreLetting the ocean instruct, Part II: Receiving the gift of life
Despite my intentions of slowing down the pace a bit this year, so much has been going on! So, this is my new year’s blog, a few days late, and hopefully better for the percolating. I am a person who really likes to mark time; I love the rhythm of the year, the celebration of holidays, the thresholds, the in-between times, the moments where you sense that something new is possible. Every moment is a threshold moment, containing the possibility for revelation and change, truth be told, but it seems that certain moments present themselves more obviously as such. And so, not surprisingly,...
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