What I say and What I mean
When you're running errands and standing in a line, look around. How many of your fellow shoppers are letting their heads drop forward?...
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Finding your balance
Change is continuous. Health is a constant balance not an endpoint. The lens of traditional Chinese medicine, dating back 3,000 years,...
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What I say and what I mean
What I say and what I mean. How many times have you found they don’t match up? Or, put another way, what I say and what is heard are not...
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Shine a light on sleep
Sleep. What could go wrong? In my last blog I distilled the science of sleep relying on UC Berkeley neuroscientist Matthew Walker’s...
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Are we in a sleep recession?
UC Berkeley neuroscientist Matthew Walker thinks so. Biologically mandated to support our survival for centuries, sleep is being short...
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Magic elixir for healthy aging
Labor Day signals a fresh start every year for me. Although I no longer teach at a school or have school-aged children, I still find...
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When we can't move on
I recently listened to On Being’s podcast host Krista Tippet and family therapist and author Pauline Boss discuss ambiguous loss, an idea...
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Here you are. I am here.
The Natal people of South Africa greet each other saying, “sawubona”, here you are, to which the response is “sikona”, I am here. What a...
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Shifting from shallow to deep
Before COVID-19 put an entirely new spin on things, I was reading Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport, a Georgetown computer science...
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Coming up for air
One of the joys of yoga is learning how to breathe – bringing awareness and ease to something you’ve been doing all your life. The breath...
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Ready to tinker with your expectations?
What if I told you that your brain is largely in the prediction business? And your capacity to tinker creatively with expectation will...
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It only takes a smile
I am often struck by how good a smile feels. Connection, warmth, a little lift to my spirits. Who started this exchange? Did I smile...
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What makes a habit stick?
As we begin a new decade, I’d like to plug cultivating the reading habit. Put down your phone. Pick up a book or a magazine. Focus. We...
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Containing the Ego
If I were to pick one personal challenge I return to daily it would be containing the ego. As a yoga teacher I often caution my students...
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Wake up!
The Summer Day Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean- the one who...
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Bearing witness on the Southern border
I’ve returned from a church mission trip to McAllen, Texas. My heart is heavy. Here’s what I saw and heard: Families camped out in the...
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Only kindness makes sense
I walked into a coffee shop to kill time and write a blog on kindness. And what do I experience immediately but a nice, young man...
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Meditation for the rest of us
I’ve returned from a brief experience of monastic life and realize it’s not for me. It came as a surprise. I expected to step into the...
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Maybe practice doesn't make perfect
Let’s turn “practice makes perfect” on its head. Instead, practice, the art of exercising a skill repeatedly, may not lead to perfection...
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Seeking wonder and stillness
Writing and sending a blog on wonder, stillness, and play in December was my plan. I had led a workshop at St. Stephen’s Episcopal. We...
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