I incorporate stillness amidst the busy, positive energy of the season Summer is a season of spontaneity. It’s always seemed to shun the necessities of schedule and routine. Maybe that’s a holdover from school days ending and giving way to wide open spaces filled by daylight, when I’d spend hours riding loops around the neighbourhood … Read more How I maintain balance during the heat of summer
On celebrating our differences I recently celebrated a birthday, which always gives me pause for reflection on who I am and how I show up in the world. For much of my life, I felt different. Like I didn’t belong and was wrong somehow. I was always consciously molding myself to whatever way of being … Read more May the fourth be with you
When we bring awareness and attention to our habitual thoughts, we can start to shift them to support our dreams.
I sensed a giant collective exhale as we entered March. As I write this the sun is shining brilliantly and the snow is giving way to patches of green grass. Over coffee I watched a couple of cardinals dance and flit about each other perhaps making plans for an upcoming nest in our lilac tree. … Read more Breathing into March’s twists and turns
This photo is of a giant concrete frog on a playground in my neighbourhood. In normal times, it would be covered with children climbing and jumping and playing. But as we near a full year of pandemic life where I am, the frog sits alone, untouched. I noticed this, pondering this strange existence we’ve been … Read more Frogs sit still and so can we