Teeny Tiny Mantras
Today is Patti Smith.
Patti Smith - Horses (full studio version) (by Twentysixbillion)
Kind of stuck on this song.
Elvis Costello, “When It Sings” (by Iain Halliday)
may my heart always be open to little birds
who are the secrets of living… (by ee cummings)(photo by catene)
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I make playlists as a form of meditation
Om Mani Padme Hum Archive
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Are you okay?
Posted on December 24, 2012 | 4 Comments“People help you, or you help them, and when we offer and receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.” – Anne Lamott I sat alone... -
It’s such a good feeling
Posted on November 17, 2012 | 2 CommentsMy son and I have been watching old episodes of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood lately. It’s much easier than I realized to get engrossed in the land of make-believe and film... -
Ordinary power
Posted on November 6, 2012 | No CommentsThis morning, after I dropped my son off in his classroom at school, I was stopped by someone who wanted to tell me how kind she felt he is. More... -
Tract for the Day of the Dead
Posted on November 1, 2012 | No CommentsOne of my first official acts as a newly minted 40-year-old was to help my mother pronounce my stepfather dead after a prolonged and terrible brain illness. It was dawn... -
Nothing
Posted on August 25, 2012 | No CommentsThere is a labyrinth up the street from us, in front of a church I like to visit regularly to see friends. Yesterday, Declan walked the entire thing, skipping and... -
Saturday night dragonfly
Posted on November 22, 2011 | No CommentsA dragonfly hovered strangely at eye-level outside my car window in August. I thought it must mean that my friend Joan was dead. I was stopped at a red light.... -
Impermanent impermanence
Posted on September 21, 2011 | 2 CommentsSo I took the better part of a year to complete the 12 Steps (for codependents). I thought finishing them would crack my life wide open. There were days when... -
Constructing immortality
Posted on July 8, 2011 | 2 CommentsI have become an aficionado of science documentaries; a connoisseur of Cosmos, a knower of Nova and a devotee of the Discovery Channel. Because space remains the iron core of... -
Dharma spelling
Posted on April 5, 2011 | 1 CommentMy son patiently snuggled on my lap during a Sunday morning dharma teaching about living in samsara. As I took in my wise teacher’s thoughts about nurturing compassion in the... -
Like a prayer
Posted on April 4, 2011 | No CommentsI used to bristle when someone told me, “I will pray for you.” It seemed presumptuous. Who were they praying to? And how did they know that their God had...
