Posted on May 7, 2021
Over the course of my lifetime, I have shouldered many different identities with those closest to me. I still do. First I was a daughter, sister, granddaughter, niece, cousin. Going to school I became a friend to many. In the second decade of my life I collected more identities—wife, daughter-in-law, sister-in-law, mother. And then I spent the next few decades honoring those identities and roles—sometimes well and other times not. As a child, being a daughter or a sister or…
Posted on April 26, 2021
On a recent trip to Big Sur, we got to explore the forest. Its majesty and vastness reminded me very much of life itself—mystic, ever-evolving, and colorful. At times on my long morning walks, I could hear myself breathing, and I could feel my feet gently treading the uneven landscape. This reminded me of my “good” days—ones where I feel balanced and charged with an “I got this!” attitude. Then there were times when I would hear the sounds of…
Posted on April 19, 2021
Happy Mindfulness Monday! Most of us just don’t practice being silent enough…or at all. We have programmed ourselves to absorb data from the outside and output it immediately. We want to be quick, efficient multitaskers. In many ways, as a society, this defines our worth — how much we get done during the day and how quickly we do it. “Being silent or quiet is a waste of time!” AND “I feel like I got nothing done today!” are common…
Posted on April 11, 2021
This last year has literally forced all of us into confined spaces for extended periods of time. In our pre-pandemic, “old-normal” world, if we sat home for a whole weekend, we’d be sure not to sit home for the next three. During the pandemic, our escape became binge-eating, binge-watching shows, and binge-Instagramming for the first three months. As reality set in and the number of pandemic-related cases and deaths rose globally, we had to confront the fears that we had…
Posted on April 5, 2021
Sometime in early 2017, I was in a hair salon with my daughter, Nitasha, and her hairdresser asked my opinion on a challenge she was facing. As we got deeper into a conversation about “the right thing to do”, K turns to Nitasha and says, “Oh my! Your Mom is soooo woke!”. Having never heard that word before, it took me a minute to connect the dots: Woke, Sleep, Awake! Ah! I got it! She meant awakened or conscious or aware…
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