EMPOWERED Visiting the lotus ponds at Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens in Washington, DC, has become an annual pilgrimage for me. My hilly suburban plot in northern Virginia doesn't...
NEW Lotus Blossom Images
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Cicadas as Mindfulness Teachers
In Hindu, an Upaguru is a teacher that is next to you at any given moment. This is not limited to a person.~ Mark Nepo, Seven Thousand Ways to Listen The Brood X periodical cicadas have...
A Not So Fresh Mothers Day Bouquet
Earlier this week I took a road trip to Longwood Gardens with my new photography mentor, Emily Carter Mitchell. Like any good teacher, Emily has been helping me lean into new ways of...
Listening
Listening, listening, listening. What do You want me to hear? Bird song? Mower at work at 7:42 am on a Saturday? My chest constricting with the story of that? The fan over the eggs boiling...
The Song of Endings and Beginnings
Out of such transparency of the human heart, things of value are created and we are created. Such openness requires two ongoing devotions: the risk to be, to slow to the pace of creation,...
A Shot of Color
This will be short and sweet. I just wanted to send you a shot of color that my cold and muddy garden gifted me yesterday. Today it's once again rainy, grey, and bone-chilling outside here...
Weighing Myself as Mindfulness Practice
Note: I revised this piece to provide a little more context to the graph below. The timing of this post -- landing on Valentine's (or Galentine's) Day -- may feel a little weird. It's not...
My 2021 Goals
The thrill of life is not about who we are but about who we are in the process of becoming. Similarly, the magic of our brain lies not in its constituent elements but in the way those...
Taking Stock of 2020 and My Annual Goals Report Card
A ginko was the first tree to grow back after the bombing of Hiroshima. That's resilience! Happy New Year! I don't know about you, but I woke up this morning feeling just a little bit...
Christmas at Half-Mast
How are you doing navigating the emotional roller coaster of the holidays this year? A few weeks ago I felt like skipping Christmas altogether. It just felt wrong to me to open a bunch of...
Pop-Up Virtual Art Show Details
Greetings, friend! Hope you had a safe and anchored Thanksgiving. We're just a couple of days away from my first ever virtual Art Show -- YAY!!! I've been pulling myself up the learning...
Thanksgiving in the Midst of the Storm
Gratitude, the spirit of Thanksgiving, whacked me upside the head recently in the midst of a literal storm. Yup, 2020 has felt like one big storm engulfing the world, keeping our internal...