Unwavering Attention: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World
I recently learned of a term coined, laughably, in 1998 by writer and former Apple employee Linda Stone, called “Continuous Partial Attention.” This is where we pay “simultaneous attention to a number...
View ArticleThirty Day Meditation Challenge
Meditation is one of those things people often think they “should” do but don’t know why, exactly. Not to mention it might feel like just another “something” to find time for. And then there’s that...
View ArticleReady, Set…Meditate
Today I begin a 30-Day meditation challenge. I think ‘challenge’ is not the right word, per se; perhaps “invitation” would suffice, but then again, challenges motivate people. I’ve been an intermittent...
View ArticleDay 2: In Praise of Doing Nothing (30 Days of Meditation)
“We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don´t know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should identify with or believe in. So many contradictory voices, dictates, and...
View ArticleDay 5. On Vulnerability: My Soft Candy Center
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared with what lives inside us.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson It’s the fifth formal day of my meditation practice and something new is...
View ArticleDesire Withheld
Yes, lately I’ve become that insufferable person who finds a spiritual lesson in just about everything. Sorry, kids, you’re just going to have to get used to it. I’m a writer. Life is handing me...
View ArticleOust Overwhelm in your Writing Practice: Part 1
Each day this week I’m going to write about overwhelm in your writing practice; this demon will come to steal your writerly energy in many ways, without notice, over and over again, as well as...
View ArticleBringing Mindfulness to Work
Last year was a year of Big Plans: books and articles, essays and novel ideas, plans for travel and home improvement, and plans for becoming a better mother and so on. Man was it a busy year. The kind...
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