Eat Local And Eat In Abundance: Get a CSA or go to your local farmer’s market and see what is new every week. Get excited for something later in the summer and then enjoy it when it finally arrives. When something finally is harvested eat it until you are blue in the face while everything is …
For a long time I’ve resisted the concept of gratitude. It is a buzz word in the mindfulness world and lots of people are doing gratitude meditations, radical acceptance workshops and all sorts of practices that encourage one to take notice of the blessings in their lives. For the last few years I’ve known that my …
This weekend we went to a wedding in Boston. It felt like early May all weekend instead of deep June and it was glorious to be outside without much agenda. In addition to a lack of agenda we were in a beautiful part of Boston, on foot and traveling with a three year old. The …
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When I was a teenager I made a mad dash to a gangly 5’8.” I would grow so fast I would sometimes wake up in the middle of the night struck down with a lightning bolt in my calf muscles. The doctors always shrugged it off saying they were growing pains and very normal. Sprouting …
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In the last two weeks spring has sprung and the world has emerged from hibernation. The trees are all laden with heavy buds or bursts of green. Daffodils are trumpeting, tulips are eagerly awaiting their moment and irises are beginning their spiralic ascent. It is a magnificent time to be alive and to be a …
This morning I woke up on this beautiful Sunday morning with a thousand things to do and a scattered, crazed mind. So much for my restful weekend to help revive me from my travels last weekend. I’ve been so busy wanting to write this third bird post and get my spring newsletter out that I …
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About six years ago I decided that surrender was my number one lesson to learn. Growing up I had been a fighter. Always pushing, fighting, struggling to get what I wanted and needed. After I fell in love a few times and made some significant friendships I realized that the best things in life usually …
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These last few years I’ve been defining and redefining comfort. Truth be told I’m a comfort lush. If someone were to count how many times I use the word comfortable in a yoga class they wouldn’t be able to participate in the class, they would be too busy counting. I am all about comfort. When …
I’m certainly not a green thumb, but I am a plant person. In our very sunny apartment my houseplants are the happiest they have ever been. I have a continuously blooming African violet that astonishes me after years of being flowerless. I have a rapidly spindling ivy that is the first I’ve kept alive since …
This morning while I was writing I heard the familiar sound of geese honking and turned to look out the south-facing window to see hundreds of Canadian geese in route northward. Even on this frosty, but sunny March morning there is something so heart-warming about seeing the certainty of nature repeating itself. The geese have …