I was in a conversation the other day with a colleague who was relating a situation in her workplace that needed tending. And then she said, “But that is not my work now. My work is to take care of myself and keep myself healthy.” Choices. Priorities. If we were to take care of every […]
There is a bird that has found my windowsill of late. He cocks his head and looks at me inquisitively. This has me in wonder. It has me in wonder because I have been contemplating where to put a bird feeder. I find myself being directed by this bird. This bird is just being. Looking, […]
There are no shortcuts. There is only the way through that keeps you straight on the path and gets you where you want to go. There is a direct way. It is well-defined, has been tested, might take a little longer, has more stopping points, but it always gets you there. Then there are the […]
I was cutting an onion yesterday and I was awed by the perfect symmetry in the natural folds of the peeled onion. Lying on its side, the onion beckoned me to follow the narrowly spaced slightly raised folds and cut down. Then, the shape changed into flattened translucent slices to then be chopped into tiny […]