Archives

When I read the Preface to a wonderful little book called Being Home by Gunilla Norris, I realized that my love of doing repetitive housekeeping tasks, like washing the dishes or putting away the [...]

“We can only clear to the degree that we are willing to feel our feelings.” –sbv If you took a workshop with me, you ‘d learn that to clear anything – from a messy desktop to [...]

The iPad just came out last week. I don’t know about you, but I find this video [see below] really trippy… and cool! What’s one thing you can do today that inserts a little [...]

What would happen if you sat in a circle with a few people and together you took a minute to tune into a person or a thing with what I call “spacious detachment”? You could be tuning into antique [...]

Our beloved refrigerator leaves us today. I can hear her humming away in the other room – as she has for 25 years – oblivious to her fate. It’s like we’re putting her down. We bought [...]

“When how a person occurs to himself alters, everything else shifts as well.” I believe that “spaciousness” is something that expresses itself in infinite ways. [...]

“There is nothing either good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.” –Shakespeare, Hamlet Have you ever stopped whatever you were doing to simply observe your thoughts? Yes, to do nothing else but [...]

Part 5 of 5 Why is it that whenever someone catches us doing nothing, we immediately jump to our feet so that we’re not perceived as total time-wasting deadbeats? If that is something you [...]

Part 1 of 5 There couldn’t be a more perfect way to introduce the first (of five) ways to ease the side-effects of clearing clutter, than to share a question I received from a reader: [...]

“Pain happens, suffering is optional.” –Alberto Villoldo It took me years to discover that every time I cleared a drawer or a closet I would come away feeling more congested and [...]