by Martha Brettschneider | Feb 23, 2024 | Life Lessons
Photo credit for all images in this post: Martha Brettschneider/Damselwings Photography The courage of a river to continue beliefIn the slow fall of ground,Always falling fartherToward the unseen ocean. John O’Donohue In my last post, I alluded to a recent ah ha...
by Martha Brettschneider | Dec 20, 2023 | Life Lessons, Mindfulness in Nature
“You and I are both held up by dead things.” I said these words out loud with my hand on the boulder in this photograph, which I came across meandering in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains this summer. It may have been my imagination, but I could have sworn that I felt...
by Martha Brettschneider | Mar 22, 2023 | Life Lessons, Mental Fitness
I surprised a friend recently when I told her that I was hiring someone to do my spring garden clean-up this year. This friend has known me for twenty years, so she knows that in an earlier chapter I never could have imagined not doing my own gardening. Looking back...
by Martha Brettschneider | Mar 11, 2023 | Life Lessons, Mental Fitness
A few days ago, visiting Denver’s Botanic Gardens, I encountered my own version of William Blake’s “To see a World in a Grain of Sand / And a Heaven in a Wild Flower…” I discovered the Universe in a frozen pond. Leaves and other plant parts that had been blown into...
by Martha Brettschneider | Jan 31, 2023 | Life Lessons, Mindfulness, Motivation
Greetings! Jumping in on this last day of January, 2023, to let you know how pumped I am for the year ahead. The stage is set for quantum growth! I’ve dropped in the term “quantum growth” from time to time over the years. But what does it even mean? The education...
by Martha Brettschneider | Jan 8, 2023 | Life Lessons, Mindfulness, Motivation
Whew! We are just one week into 2023 and I can’t believe how quickly my batteries have recharged and refreshed me after my depleting December. Last month’s challenges are such a gift to me now. The moment on Christmas Eve day when I told myself I didn’t have time to...
