Some Day is Now
Eckhart Tolle teaches us about the Power of Now in his book of the same name. Now is all we have. So when you find yourself saying “Some day I’ll do this or that,” know that some day is now. When I was a kid, my […]
Eckhart Tolle teaches us about the Power of Now in his book of the same name. Now is all we have. So when you find yourself saying “Some day I’ll do this or that,” know that some day is now. When I was a kid, my […]
Do you doubt the moon’s existence, even if it is not in sight? In times of darkness, do you wonder if the sun will ever shine again? If you have ever witnessed the passing clouds on a dark night, you will know that the Unseen […]
Behold the gift of silence. It marks the spaces between our thoughts. It cleans the edges of our minds. It gives us room to breathe. Martin Heidegger once said: “We make space inside ourselves so being can speak.” But do we really? Many people struggle […]
Tanja didn’t believe me at first. “Hug a tree?” she skeptically looked at me over her steaming mug of coffee. “Alright then, Christine.” She refrained from rolling her eyes at me. For the moment. I explained the power of trees, of their grounding nature, of […]
Going Slow means saying no. But not always. When we say “no” to certain opportunities, we are saying “yes” to the possibility of others. We are creating space for what is meant to come into our lives. But many of us fear that space, that […]
Listening. It is a hard skill to learn. The irony is we have an innate ability to listen. In fact, it has been necessary for our survival as a species. Before we learned to speak, we had to listen to our parents. Before we lived […]
It was not one of my finer moments. Eyeing the soft, dry grass, I knew it was a now-or-never moment to whip out the lawn mower for the final cut of the season. In between phone calls, I raced around the house, collecting the extension […]
Nature, in all its beauty, waves a last goodbye before winter. As a harbinger of the coming cold, it bursts with color one last time. A sweet, yet sorrowful moment of another season departing. But as with everything, the seasons go full-circle. What is dawn […]
The average American spends nine years of his life watching television and two million commercials. Only two weeks of his life is spent kissing another person. Imagine if those numbers were reversed (and probably are in some countries!). The average Joe spends 4,050 hours at […]