Today is my birthday. I make a big fuss over it because I know many beloved people who no longer get to celebrate a birthday. It is a privilege denied many. However, to wake up any morning is miraculous. To be able to get up, out of bed, and go do things is wondrous. I…
If it’s raining and you have an umbrella, use it. This advice from Psychiatrist, Dr. Shoma Morita, means that when you find yourself in difficult circumstances and there is the possibility of taking any action to relieve or influence those circumstances, then do so. This may mean canceling appointments or making one. We may need…
Karoshi – Manage Energy, not Time By Gregg Krech The Japanese have the longest life expectancy of any country in the world (2020). You’ll have to scan much further down the list to find the United States. We’re 54th. So the Japanese must be doing something right. But not everybody in Japan lives to a…
Teachers As we sail into July, my heart and head turn to teachers. Those wonderful unsung heroes in our lives who show up and do their life-changing work, often with little acknowledgment. Just as my grandkids are loving their summer holidays, I hope teachers are enjoying their hard earned vacations too. I am thinking today…
A Father’s Day Thank You: Love Lives in the Specifics by Aaron Orendorff Fourteen years ago, I read an article in The Sun Magazine about gratitude, diapers, and where love lives. The article was entitled “Many Thanks: Gregg Krech on the Revolutionary Practice of Gratitude.” Krech and his wife, Linda, are the “founders and operators…
The Italian physician and educator, Maria Montessori, taught children that each activity in life had three important stages – the preparation stage, the activity itself, and the clean up process. What a good reminder for us all, so that we can make room for all three stages in our schedule. While the activity itself is…
We recently rode by what used to be our favorite Vermont bakery. It’s been closed for quite some time, sadly, but it used to be a scrumptious, creative, community-minded bakery. The path to the front door cut through a garden so vibrant and eclectic that it always put a big smile on my face. I…
“I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines in a journal. A day when one has not pushed oneself to the limit seems a damaged, damaging day, a sinful day. Not so! The most valuable thing one can…