by Martha Brettschneider | Jun 10, 2014 | Breast Cancer, Fitness, Life Lessons, Meditation, Mindful Gardening, Mindfulness, Most Popular Posts, Motivation
Five years ago today, on June 10, 2009, I lay on an operating table with my arms immobilized in Velcro crucifix constraints forming perfect 90 degree angles from my torso. Salty tears slid down my temples into my hair, with no way for me to wipe them away. Realizing...
by Martha Brettschneider | May 9, 2014 | Life Lessons, Meditation, Mindful Gardening, Mindfulness, Photography
Please excuse my absence. I’ve been trying to channel a chickadee for the past several weeks. Did you know that chickadees have retinas lined with receptors that are twice as dense as those in human retinas? I learned that in David George Haskell’s The...
by Martha Brettschneider | Apr 6, 2014 | Life Lessons, Mindful Gardening, Mindfulness, Most Popular Posts, Motivation
First, I wanted to apologize to my email subscribers for my last post’s (A Few of My Favorite Things) crazy formatting. The piece was fine on the website, but I didn’t size the photos correctly for the emailed version, which mucked the whole thing up....
by Martha Brettschneider | Mar 12, 2014 | Life Lessons, Mindfulness, Motivation
Hi folks! How do you like my new blog design? Since this year is focused on Whispers From My Garden, I asked the lovely and talented Tara DuBois of Unbound Website Creations to design a new header with some of my garden photography. As I wrote back in January, my 2014...
by Martha Brettschneider | Feb 23, 2014 | Life Lessons, Mindful Parenting, Mindfulness, Motivation
Does anybody else out there (male or female) have an inferiority complex when they watch the GE commercial that’s been running during the U.S. coverage of the Olympics? It’s the one with the little girl narrating while magical graphics play in the...
by Martha Brettschneider | Jan 21, 2014 | Life Lessons, Mindful Parenting, Mindfulness, Most Popular Posts
Today Spirit stumbled coming up the three steps from the back patio. His hindquarters just collapsed. I helped him up and he was wagging his tail as soon as he made it into the house, thanking me and trying to reassure me that he was OK. He will be 13 this summer. I...
