Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach This winter feels like the shortest in my life. Maybe this was the first year I more fully lived the energy of the season. I mostlyContinue reading “Hope Springs”
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Reading: Metamorphosis — Happy Fall!
Gil Hedley, Integral Anatomy posted on Facebook 9/1/2016: “Sometimes we need to re-tool ourselves. The way you have operated no longer serves you or those around you. How you will function without those old ways you haven’t a clue. Still, any more action based on that dated operating system is untenable, grating. It takes aContinue reading “Reading: Metamorphosis — Happy Fall!”
Reading: Change
“Change has considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.” – King Whitney Jr. I found this yearsContinue reading “Reading: Change”
Reading: Change…for better
“How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.”― Elizabeth Lesser From ElizabethContinue reading “Reading: Change…for better”
Happy Endings?…or at least at peace with change
(I ended up on this tangent on impermanence while finally finishing my newsletter as I got some reminders lately, both personally and as a teacher. I did not find it appropriate to include right now, however, thought I would still share as someone may benefit.) Life and most everything we associate with our livesContinue reading “Happy Endings?…or at least at peace with change”
Readings from Class: Transitioning to Spring with Charles Dickens and Sarah Ban Breathnach
Week of 3/25: “It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” – Charles Dickens, Great Expectations The experience of teaching in the Back Bay and walking between classes this time of year always inspiresContinue reading “Readings from Class: Transitioning to Spring with Charles Dickens and Sarah Ban Breathnach”