I recently listened to On Being’s podcast host Krista Tippet and family therapist and author Pauline Boss discuss ambiguous loss, an idea...

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...

Before COVID-19 put an entirely new spin on things, I was reading Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport, a Georgetown computer science...

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...

What if I told you that your brain is largely in the prediction business? And your capacity to tinker creatively with expectation will...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Let’s turn “practice makes perfect” on its head. Instead, practice, the art of exercising a skill repeatedly, may not lead to perfection...

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...

How do we live gratefully in these painful times? Turn on the tv, read the news, listen to a podcast/radio talk show, canvass for a...

Has cancer touched your life? If so, you know it to be an unwelcome visitor that hijacks health, disrupts life, and demands attention....

"Hallelujah" by Mary Oliver Everyone should be born into this world happy and loving everything.But in truth it rarely works that

Spring is on my mind and new life is greening up. I’ve gardened for years reading up on deer resistant plants, delighting in early...

It’s fair to say we look down on easy. Easy often connotes inferior, lacking effort, not worth it. It’s also true that things that come...

I’ve always had a mixed reaction to this idea of blessing. Largely I reject the premise that God blesses some and not others. So when...