The Buddha said “Life means suffering”, but every mother thinks, “just not my kids, leave them out”. When my children were growing up, my first and immediate response to thier physical or emotional pain was, of course, to prevent or cure it. As they grew older there were more hurts that I couldn’t prevent and Read More
acceptance
Yoga, Parenting and The Dandelion Wars…
“Everybody thinks their opinion is the right one. If they didn’t, they would get a new one.” Anne Lamott I spent the afternoon harvesting dandelions for dinner tonight. I haven’t always had a cozy relationship with the so-called weed. For years, the beginning of spring heralded what I fondly referred to as the Dandelion Wars. Read More
Off The Mat–Is It OK To Cry In Front Of The Kids?
Tears are Summer showers to the soul. ~Alfred Austin, Savonarola Last summer, in a forest chapel overlooking Lake Winnipesaukee, my 21-year-old son read an essay aloud to several hundred boys and their counselors at Camp Belknap. The trumpet called out over the water, and boys of all sizes emerged through the woods to sit together Read More
The Mosaic That is You.
“There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, … like a laborious mosaic.” Read More