Inspiring

You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather. –Pema Chödrön I often use the metaphor of the weather to teach a key principle of letting go I call spacious detachment. It [...]

September. It’s my favorite month of the year. More than just it being one of the most beautiful and bountiful months in New England where I live, September has always been a time of shift [...]

I came across this poem recently tucked deep in a file on my computer I called “Remembering.” I know nothing about the author Jonathan Leavy,* or how this poem found me. It must have [...]

“Once we change the very way we see, we may begin to experience the connections that tie us all together.” –Lynne McTaggart What do Albert Einstein, Aldous Huxley, William [...]

If you could have a day or a weekend just for your self, what would you do? After spending a weekend watching my two selves battling each other – i.e. delighted self vs. worried self [that [...]

“It’s the desire—not its fulfillment—that nourishes you, because it’s the language of your heart. When you listen to that language, you hear your self.”–Geneen Roth If you [...]

Beautiful video. Gorgeous images. Timeless wisdom. Use the flaws  (i.e. misspellings) as another opportunity to observe attachment and… let it go! Passion. Not perfection.

I love pleasant surprises.  I got a really nice one the other day in the form of an unsolicited review for my book. This one is by someone named Austin S. on Goodreads. I don’t know who [...]

Dan Pink, best-selling author of A Whole New Mind, confirmed this staggering statistic I’d heard some years ago as part of my research for Your Spacious Self: “The self-storage [...]

Just read a terrific New York Times article about the effect heirlooms have on on our lives entitled “How to Lose a Legacy” by Ellen Lupton. Humorous, colorful, timely – this article [...]