Midnight Mind – Monkey Mind
Midnight mind, monkey mind, is what I’m calling the tendency, often obsessive, to ruminate, to work it, turn it, trouble it, to try to untangle and only make the tangle worse. And by “it”, I mean some perceived (or real) threat, danger, situation over which we have little or no control, and where there are...
Life and Death
Happy May Day! The First of May is celebrated widely and diversely. The Writers Almanac surveys the many different ways May 1st is, and has been, observed across the years. In addition to celebrating, with open heart and all my senses, the earth’s great efflorescing, I like to mark the march of seasons. (Effloresce was my word of the day today. It’s a...
