by Martha Brettschneider | Dec 28, 2022 | Life Lessons
Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash It seems to me that the quality of our life should concern us far more than the wake or trail we leave behind. If we endeavor to live well, to use our personal strengths effectively, and seek to be as healthy as we can be emotionally,...
by Martha Brettschneider | Aug 20, 2022 | Life Lessons, Mindful Photography, Mindful Photography, Mindfulness in Nature
A human life can have everything—beauty, status, reputation, achievement, all kinds of possessions, but if the imagination is not awakened, all these lack presence and depth.~ John O’Donohue From my journal, on Day 6 of my week-long photography and visual design...
by Martha Brettschneider | Mar 1, 2022 | Feng Shui/Clutter Clearing, Life Lessons, Mindfulness
Sometimes the puzzle pieces of our lives fall into place with unusual clarity. In my own experience, this phenomenon is preceded by some sort of shake-up. I stepped off the grid for a while, just following my intuition. For reasons not clear to me at the time, the...
by Martha Brettschneider | Dec 19, 2021 | Life Lessons, Mindfulness
The more closely I pay attention, the more fully I recognize my own life in nature’s seasonal shifts. One of our town’s holiday traditions is that Santa drives through our neighborhoods in an antique fire truck, waving and passing out candy, announcement...
by Martha Brettschneider | Apr 18, 2021 | Life Lessons, Mindfulness
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 on the stove. The clink of my spoon against my bowl of oatmeal. The feel of the...
by Martha Brettschneider | Apr 1, 2021 | Life Lessons, Mindful Photography, Mindfulness, Workshop
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, where all things join; and the courage not just to let through whatever comes...
