Dear Friends- I am so happy to announce that the little meditation book I wrote is available — with lots of short audio and video clips and tips! It’s 99 cents. Here’s the link for iBooks. If you buy it on iBooks, you can open it on multiple devices (e.g. I bought it on my iPhone,…
This August is unusually cool and breezy, at least in NYC. It feels more like September, with just an occasional blast of heat. But maybe you’re reading this post from the Salton Sea or Jakarta or the Everglades, and long for a glacial retreat. I hope this video of elves sledding as the sun sets…
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” -Walt Whitman Last week I was “on vacation” in the majestic Smokey Mountains – “on vacation” with quotation marks because I was up every night, all week, with my darling youngest daughter, who had a nasty chest cough that reappeared every…
Funambulism is tightrope walking (from Latin ‘funis’ = rope + ‘ambulare’ = to walk). People have been doing it for a long time (though not for ‘eons’, because eon = 1 billion years & humans weren’t around that far back in geologic time). Walking through glorious Prospect Park, I notice a passel of people gathered…
This Spring, Kewei and I worked together on micromeditation.org and she was inspired to create a video for the site. Please watch Emptiness . In her words: We seek so many things, we desire so many things. And yet, we also share the desire for emptiness, the absence of wanting. And this tension can be…
Hurricane Sandy devastated the trees, shrubs, and plants of Brooklyn, along with people, homes, and coastlines. A stand of 3 gorgeous mature lilac trees was obliterated on the little bridge near the entrance to Prospect Park at Grand Army Plaza. But up from the wreckage the next Spring came a valiant little flowering from what…
“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away…