Archive | Musings

Sometimes we only need a few words, little sayings, to motivate and encourage us. Coeur is the French word for heart. When words touch our hearts they awaken us to capacities that lie dormant within us and we feel encouraged to dare many things. Let a little saying be a friend to help you live […]

We have a new year and a new month to live. What can be trusted as we step out into the days and hours ahead? It’s kind of startling to really look into what we trust. A lot of it is automatic like trusting that the sun is still shining even when it is a […]

The holidays are not a peaceful time. We hurry to get everything done and worry about money, time, feelings, and expectations. What a good time to think a little bit about peace! Peace can be an inner sense of stillness – a place beyond thought and striving. It can also be full, blazing joy where […]

We’re headed for Thanksgiving though Christmas décor is almost usurping the holiday. There were snow showers in RI yesterday. Fall is turning to winter. The seasons slide into each other, and though many things remain the same, there is a lot that has changed completely. There is a reason why the killing frost signals new […]

With the subject of limits just finished for the month of September, it seems right to think of adventure as a good subject for October. What is an adventure? There are so many ways to think about it–doing new things or not doing what we always do. It can be as simple as trying a […]

September is back to school time for many. For all of us the school of life is open every season and every day, all day. Without fail we will encounter limitations as part of the curriculum. It’s a pithy thing to think about. Limits are to be honored for sure, and to be overcome if […]

An intention seriously embraced is like having a GPS system to navigate the ups and downs of our activities. We might hit the detours, bad weather and traffic jams that show up in our lives, but there is a direction under all of that. We don’t have to keep our minds on our intention every […]

I remember sitting in a Zendo and hearing the teacher say, ONLY GO DON’T KNOW. What if we could stop our easy judgments and accept that we don’t really know the whole story? Whenever I am able to do that in a given situation, what follows is almost always a sense of freedom. My guess […]

June is often thought of as the wedding month. Love vows are made and the journey of loving, compromising, adjusting, sharing, disagreeing, disappointing, renewing begins for two people. But it isn’t only people who wed. There are so many ways to wed things together especially if we desire love to be in the equation. When […]

We’ve heard older citizen say, in my day, and then recount experiences of the past. But what if we linked aspects of our days with moments of intention or attention, what would a day become for us? There is a moment when we awaken from sleep. Do we groan? Oh no, do I have to? […]