Comfort & Joy

All week long, I have enjoyed so much comfort and joy from a wooden bowl full of apples, sitting on my kitchen table. Each time I walked past them, the scent of farm-fresh apples wafts by, and my eyes delight in the bounty of these beautiful fruits. A bowl of…

I am seeking an inward gaze, in the midst of all the noise around me. I open my eyes and the morning light stretches across the window of the bedroom. It is a new day. Yet, I want it to still be night. How can I reconcile my darkness with…

In the gaze of hope I am gazing at a photograph in a Smithsonian magazine of Annie Mae, a quilter from Gee’s Bend Alabama. The woman in the photograph is now 78, and the moment captures her pulling a threaded needle through a piece of fabric as she is making…

Practicing patience towards myself changes the tone of a day. When I am patient, I am calmer, and my body and mind feel better. Yet, impatience surges through me at every corner, and it takes my mindful awareness to keep returning to the practice of patience throughout the day. Lately,…

Book Reading this Saturday, September 6, 4 pm Come and join me! Book Passage Bookstore in Corta Madera, CA Book reading and signing of Comfort and Joy, Simple Ways to Care for Ourselves and Others. “Illuminating the sources of comfort that are inherent in the simple, everyday rituals of our…

I just don’t feel like myself these days. I’m off. So many things have happened and are happening, my father’s death four months ago, returning to another school year, the launch and promotion of my book, and changes in my body that have triggered sleeping difficulties.  I am needing patience…