“There is no wealth but life”
Are you muttering a sarcastic comment as you read this quote from 19th century art critic John Ruskin? It’s undoubtedly true that life could be a…
Crooked Things
It’s time to celebrate crooked things. We often seek perfection but will we ever get it all straight? I don’t think so. Maybe we once believed…
Smarter Faster Better?
When Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Charles Duhigg talks about productivity, he’s not just talking about efficiency and profits and time management. To him, what it means to…
The Power of Positive Emotions
Rick Hanson weaves a close connection between new discoveries in neuroscience about the brain and the millennial exercises Buddhist monks engage in to clarify the mind…
Giving Up Wanting or Pulling Up Weeds and Planting Flowers
Neuroscientist Rick Hanson, author of Buddha’s Brain, offers us some practical suggestions on how to give up too much hankering after what we want. He says…
Why Are We So Busy?
Why are we so busy? I ask myself, with new wisdom gained from a heavy tray that fell on my foot, interrupting my forward motion through…
TREES — The Alternative Cathedral
Whenever I feel shaken by the blows of life, or mired in the inertia of not caring, contact with nature helps restore me to balance. Everywhere…
Being and Doing
Sometimes life seems a bit like a never-ending battle between doing and being. if I wish to be present, I need to turn my attention toward…
If Wishes Were Horses, Beggars Would Ride
That’s what my mother used to say to us kids when we told her how much we wanted something. Later, as adults, she would ask us…
The Power of the Parent
As I watch my children attempt to deal with their own teenage children, it reminds me once again of the strong hold parental influence has on…
