Life is good and I am grateful
I shared this article on Facebook this morning, because it’s a topic that is near and dear to my heart at the age of fifty-five. I immediately racked up several comments in response to this post rationalizing “OK Boomer” as “not that big a deal,” or defending the entire millennial…
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. As a public school teacher who has been dealing with other people’s children all day, every day, for the last thirteen years, I read a lot of articles about brain science, cognition, psychology, and human development. This morning I read this…
I read this story on Humans of New York this morning and was reminded that this is similar to how I feel about my dad, now. Same sort of “monster” feeling when he was in the house when I was a child, for many of the same reasons. But I loved…
“Only the humble soul can be led. Only the humble soul is coachable. Only the humble soul can truly advance in the spiritual life.”–Matthew Kelly I have had five extremely humbling years. It has been a very good experience for me. Notice I didn’t say it was enjoyable. It’s been…
On June 8th, 2018, I fell off my bicycle and broke my leg into five pieces. My leg broke at a clean angle across the upper tibia and fibula, and my upper tibeal plateau broke into three triangular pieces. The break was so bad that when I was checked into…
Experiencing joy when things are not going our way is easier said than done, but essential on the path to enlightenment and mindfulness. If you find you are too stressed out, feeling like a pressure cooker, and you can’t find the way to “joyful,” (a situation I found myself in…
I wish I were better at taking a breath and being patient in a moment of anger, and I wish I remembered to do it more often. I was angry a LOT in 2019. But my anger showed me where to look for what was causing me to feel that…
I saw a meme on Facebook a few days ago that said (ironically), “The best way to become enlightened is to argue with people on Facebook.” It resonated with me because comments from people trying to argue in my post threads get DELETED. I don’t want that energy on my…
I wish I had been able to play Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood for my daughter when she was a pre-schooler, but since I had to work and she was always at daycare during the show I was unable to do it. I wasn’t able to watch it myself, even though it…
“If you feel like you’re losing everything, remember that trees lose their leaves every year and they still stand tall and wait for better days to come.”–tinybuddha.com I do NOT feel that I am losing everything. I’ve had several new and wonderful things enter my life, for which I am…