by Martha Brettschneider | Jan 6, 2018 | Meditation, Mindful Gardening, Mindful Photography, Mindfulness, Motivation, Photography
Happy New Year! I hope all of you are staying warm and safe during the crazy cold snap that much of the United States is experiencing. I’m looking out at my frozen garden as I write, more grateful than ever for the roof over my head and heat coming through the vents....
by Martha Brettschneider | Dec 29, 2017 | Life Lessons, Mindfulness, Motivation
Greetings friends! I stepped off the grid to be present with my loved ones over the holidays. We took the week before Christmas to visit family and ski at Whistler, British Columbia, returning home on Christmas Eve. Traveling before Christmas was a departure from our...
by Martha Brettschneider | Dec 16, 2017 | Life Lessons, Meditation, Mindfulness
I made the mistake this morning of looking at Facebook before I meditated. As with every “mistake,” a lesson awaited. I had decided to take a day off from my usual 20-minutes of meditating as soon as I get out of bed because we’re leaving in a few hours for vacation....
by Martha Brettschneider | Dec 7, 2017 | Blooming into Mindfulness, Meditation, Mindful Photography, Mindfulness
My favorite place during meditation is the space between breaths. When you sit in silence, even the breath can sound loud. The space between breaths is utterly still, but somehow deeply expansive as well. It reminds me of being on a swing, when you reach the highest...
by Martha Brettschneider | Nov 22, 2017 | Blooming into Mindfulness, Mindfulness
My college kids came home last night. After a bustle of activity this morning, everyone dispersed in various directions – job interview, haircut, and a run (the latter undertaken by the lovely visiting girlfriend). I sat in the stillness, my heart filled with...
by Martha Brettschneider | Nov 18, 2017 | Life Lessons, Mindfulness
When I was growing up, my recollection is that Christmas decorations didn’t go up until Thanksgiving. That may or may not be true, but I know that over the course of the last three or four decades, I’ve been conditioned to believe that it’s “wrong” for holiday...
