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Tag: buddhism

  • Offbeat Home Publication

    Hello all!  Despite my little blogging break, I am excited to say that Offbeat Home posted one of my recent articles about Buddhism and cleaning. Check out the Offbeat home article here!🙂          

  • Zen and the Art of Cleaning Up Cat Hair

    It’s Sunday morning at 7am and I’m up with unexpected energy. We were responsible last night instead of going upstairs for extra drinks with our neighbors. We went to bed at 11! We had plans for the morning, and look at me sticking to them! I start the coffee, write a bit, and head out…

  • Motivational Plant Metaphors

    Last week, I signed up to water our school garden.  The science department has a super impressive situation out back, with cherry tomatoes, zucchini, eggplant, and about five planters of herbs.  I don’t know a whole lot about gardening, the extent of my knowledge comes from helping my mom drop seeds into our backyard when…

  • Get off the Floor

    I fell over a lot as a kid.  I think it’s pretty common when you’re little – sometimes your top half moves more quickly than your bottom half, you seem to slip on everything, or you just simply tip over all the time.  It’s as if you haven’t quite figured out the whole “leg” thing yet.…

  • Some Hope for Our Brains on a Slushy Day

    The Grumpy Part of the Blog Post I don’t know about anyone else, but I feel the city is struggling today.  The 6 inches of slush aren’t helping and I’m assuming a good deal of us were up later lamenting or celebrating the Patriots catching a lucky interception. Whatever it is though, the city is iced…

  • A Mindful Wedding: Pinterest Propaganda

    About a week before the wedding, I was using our paper cutter at work to slice the ceremony programs (which is why they were all a little crooked). I texted my bridesmaid Helen to ask to if I should order a bushel of dried lavender so I could glue a sprig on each program and…

  • Rituals, Direction, and How to Not Kick Your Cat While Doing Yoga

      A couple months ago, I read Daily Rituals by Mason Currey, a book that many bloggers have been chatting about recently.  Man did this collection make me feel better about myself as an artist. He has collected the daily routines of famous and historic writers, artists, scientists, and other great minds throughout history.  By breaking down how…

  • A Fabulous Book for the First Day of Fall

    Today I would like to tip my hat to Lodro Rinzler, the author of several books on how to be a modern Buddhist, or rather, how to live compassionately nowadays based on the teachings of the Buddha. I specify this because he’s wonderful at explaining that you don’t need to buy into everything about Buddhism…

  • A Perfectly Imperfect Wedding

    It has taken some time to figure out how to express our wedding planning experience.  It’s like going on a life changing trip and then having people ask, “Well, how’d it go?”  You have too much to say, and yet nothing you can think of seems to do it justice. To begin though, it helps…