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“Let the beauty we love be what we do.”–Rumi I re-discovered Rumi last week. I went on the internet looking for something else and landed on a very unassuming site that had something [...]

“Life by the inch is a cinch. Life by the yard is hard.”–Unknown In my book Your Spacious Self I offer a series of phrases that are designed to relieve and release the build-up of [...]

“On the threshold the entire past And the endless future Rush to meet one another.” –Gunilla Norris, Being Home My friend Nancy and her husband are building a house from scratch in their hometown [...]

“Stress patterns that keep our homes, workplaces, and lives in a constant state of imbalance have a way of vaporizing in the presence of pure, elegant compassion.” –sbv Part 6 of 7 * [...]

How is it possible to allow loss to simply be? To allow that things sometimes don’t add up, make sense, or work out? I’m still in shock and recovery over the fact that my laptop [...]

Three months living in the starter home neighborhood of “Blogland” and I’ve got to move. The house is way too small for me. I need more rooms with direct access and signs on the doors [...]

It was a schlep. sixteen hours in transit from Concord, Massachusetts, where I live, to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where I also live. Sort of. I have a second home in this high desert town in [...]

Channel surfing last night landed me on The DaVinci Code––the movie based on Dan Brown’s bestselling book starring Tom Hanks. Loved the book. A sputtery version of the movie, which [...]

Clearing, as I’ve discovered, is not just something you “do,” like taking out the trash, or sorting a basement full of junk. In the bigger sense, clearing is a way of being. It is a quality of [...]

I’m watching the snow fall in the first big storm of the season. There’s an energy in the beauty of the snow falling. There’s an energy in the bracing cold…the curled up [...]