“Another trip around the sun” people say. I imagine this like an infinity loop cycling through healing, grief, inviting/welcoming and celebrating. This seems a fitting journaling practice on your birthday, an anniversary date or really any time it speaks to you. Let us remember we cannot have healing with suffering or grief and we cannot…
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Feet in the Grass
Morning Meditation
Bird chatter, bird song, the sounds of domesticity surround me. Steam from my coffee out of the corner of me eye. Warm like home. The train has passed, leaving the distant hum of traffic. We have always lived where we could hear trains. A slight cool breeze caresses my arm. It will be hot and…
Read moreBeginning & Ending
Mindfulness teaches us that each moment is precious and never like the moment before or the moment ahead. It recognizes the beginning and ending of the smallest things, like even one breath cycle. We inhale, exhale . . . a beginning and an ending. One of my practices in 2022 will be to begin and…
Read moreFluid & Flexible
Right now I am allowing myself to be curious. We are still in a pandemic. We are still grappling with inherited trauma, systemic oppression, and an epistemic crisis. I’ve realized, though I continue to forget, that I am completely dysregulated. We all are. So, my practices right now are fluid and flexible. I can’t tell…
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