Pulling threads
Notes and news from the present moment, on its swift way to becoming past.
Tending the Root
Tending the root for growth and bloom — in the throes of creative process, complication and simplification, I see how this process is constant in all growth. Elaborate expression, and pruning…where does this show up in your life?
Smrti: Present Moment Remembering
Mind gets carried away with things. It is the nature of mind to forget it is mind, and to see thought as reality. So this question can be helpful — what is going on in my mind right now? With patience and compassion, remembering the simplest thing is not so easy.
Turn the Year: A Meditation Retreat
It is natural to take time to reflect as the year turns — a time for meditative retreat in the darkest days after Winter Solstice. Let us close this year with a dedicated space for that reflection, to integrate and inquire…
December 28, 2020 – January 1, 2021 8:30–9 a.m.
#Skyproject2
The sky calls again for daily attention. What do we learn through looking, skywatching, daily practice, noting this moment, these three breaths, this sky? Join in!
The Notion of Refuge
I am grateful for a mini-retreat with a gang of you, just last week. Another opportunity to set new patterns, to contemplate teachings, and to simply SIT with it all and each other, five mornings in a row.
I chose the timing of these events deliberately, to build support into a time that was easy to predict would be fraught with tensions and anxiety.