#155: “Is Ox powerful because...”
From where does one derive power?
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- Dec 15, 2022
#146: "Everyone thinks they have the best dog..."
Albert Camus said, "Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is." There is always something else to do, some other way to act...
- Dec 7, 2022
#145: "I have done some things, thought many thoughts..."
I've noticed in my son a strong development of conscience over the last two years. I recognize in him many feelings of anguish that I...
- Dec 1, 2022
#144: "Sometimes it feels like I don't know..."
I've been re-reading some of Pema Chödrön's book, When Things Fall Apart, and so much is still so relevant in today's chaotic and...
- Nov 10, 2022
#142: "In a world that lives like a fist..."
Peaceful living feels like a one giant paradox to me most of the time. I read koans, or some of the little snippets of conversations...
- Aug 16, 2022
#131: "Sometimes I don't recognize myself..."
Collaboration with therapist and mediation teacher Koret Munguldar: Many of us struggle with having a sense of being strangers to...
- Jul 15, 2022
#127: Riding the River
"The frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean" is one of the most famous proverbs from Chinese literature. The fable comes from "The...
- Jul 8, 2022
#126: "And the day came when the risk to remain..."
What do you think, is it pain or joy that makes us bloom? 🌺
- Jun 28, 2022
#125: "Persistent pain is usually the indication that we have become..."
Michael Meade writes in "Fate and Destiny" that we all experience pain, which emerges when our smaller, egoic selves obscure the greater...
- May 16, 2022
#119: "Maybe life's greatest discovery..."
I use the word "home" in a literal sense in this painting, but what is "home"? It could mean anything we associate with our identity,...
- May 2, 2022
#117: "Holding fast to what we are..."
So often, we get caught up in a narrative that have been told about us, that we tell about ourselves, that to abandon it or stray from it...
- Feb 22, 2022
#108: Good Enough
Inspired by Baba Ram Dass... Sometimes we think we aren't good enough, and then we try to tell ourselves that yes, we are good enough....
- Jan 26, 2022
#106: "Some day we'll look back..."
Inspired by a quote from People I've Loved: "Some day we'll look back on this time & wonder how we got through it. I have no idea how...
- Jan 11, 2022
#104: "Want is a growing giant..."
From "Conduct of Life: A Philosophical Reading," this quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson is evocative, but I sometimes think it is only a...
- Jan 5, 2022
#103: "They say that time heals everything"
Time doesn't heal all wounds, at least not on it own. Time can numb our pain by putting distance between us and our trauma. But, by...
- Oct 11, 2021
#088: "These mountains that you are carrying..."
What makes pain and trauma so difficult for us to let go of? "These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb." -...
- Sep 29, 2021
#085: "I've always struggled with what I'm supposed to be..."
Collaboration with psychotherapist and meditation teacher Koret Munguldar, who is based in Istanbul, Turkey. Here are some of her...
- Aug 24, 2021
#078: "Daughter. Spend your life Loving..."
To me, Dr. Jaiya John's poetic proclamation "Daughter Drink This Water" read as an invitation to a celebration of womanhood, an embracing...
- Aug 18, 2021
#077: "A single seed planted..."
Sometimes when the going gets tough, we become even tougher on ourselves. I can't count the number of times I've told myself to "shake it...
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