Countdown to dead
I came across Kevin Kelly’s post on his “countdown to dead” and found it intriguing to have a daily reminder of my impermanence. Contemplating one’s own death is part of…
Category: Mindfulness
Walt Whitman
I came across this excerpt from a poem by Walt Whitman. This is the way to live. From this hour I ordain myself loos’d of limits and imaginary lines, Going…
On Worry
One of my favorite quotes is from the movie “The Spanish Prisoner”: “Worry is interest paid on a debt that never comes due.” A wonderful illustration of this happened to…
Being open to spirit
How open are you? How open are you to spirit? the universe? God? People? Yourself? Most people are so full of “things” that there’s no room for being open. Here’s…
World Tai Chi & Qigong day
Saturday, April 29th is World Tai Chi and Qigong day. These are gentle martial arts designed to get the energy in your body flowing properly. And whether you believe in…
Death
My wife died almost 2 weeks ago, which is why I haven’t written an entry in a while. Dealing with her long term illness, and ultimately the death of my…
Travel daydreaming
This is a big planet we live on. I’ve only seen a little bit of it. These maps make that pretty obvious. When I sat down and wrote down the…
Ten steps aid keeping your cool
I saw this in the local paper today and thought it was worth “clipping” to the blog. For me, meditation has given me more space between thought and action. That…
This Body is Not Me
(As you might know, my wife is dying of cancer, that’s why you’ll see a bunch of death related posts on my blog for a bit.) I first heard this…
So it goes
From “Slaughterhouse-Five” (Kurt Vonnegut): “When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in a bad condition in that particular moment, but that same…