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...
by Martha Brettschneider | Jan 1, 2021 | Life Lessons, Mindfulness
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 lighter energetically. We still have many difficult days ahead while the...
by Martha Brettschneider | Sep 12, 2020 | Antiracism, Life Lessons, Mindful Photography, Mindfulness
As I wrote in my last post about turning my camera upward to trees to shift my usual point of view, I’ve made an intentional effort to widen my lens and embrace new perspectives this year. I can feel at the very core of my being that this is what we are all...
