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In some ways, a good morning is like a spring bud–it holds all the promise in the world, and you really don’t know what it will look like until it unfurls into the leaf or flower you hope it will become.  In the spirit of spring mornings, here’s a video with photos from around my…

I just came across this lovely quote from Buddhist teacher Pema Chodron about meditation and accepting ourselves, craziness and all. “When people start to meditate or to work with any kind of spiritual discipline, they often think that somehow they’re going to improve, which is a sort of subtle aggression against who they really are.…

We all have dreams, big-picture life goals that we imagine will, someday, come true.  Sometimes, though, those dreams actually hold us back, keep us from moving ahead with our lives because all we’re doing is dwelling on how they haven’t come to fruition.  Here’s a lovely verse from Ella Wheeler Wilcox on releasing old dreams…

Even though it’s allegedly spring, many of us are still being pushed around by gales and chills and storms. So this Mark Strand poem, posted yesterday on my new friend Laura’s blog in honor of National Poetry Month, seems very apropos:   Lines For Winter by Mark Strand Tell yourselfas it gets cold and gray falls from the…
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