by Kate | May 14, 2025 | kind promises
May 14, 2025 – I am taking a break from blogging and writing while I heal. What happens when you look at your life with tender curiosity?
by Kate | May 7, 2025 | kind promises
[in preparation of this blog post, I listened Joy Lab episode 152] “Take a walk and look at things the way you saw them when you were 12 years old,” a writing teacher once suggested. When I was 12, I was reading fantasy novels. Walking with the view of my younger...
by Kate | Apr 23, 2025 | hope, kind promises
In a recent interview Rev. Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Georgia) said: “Hope is everything. When you lose hope, you stop fighting.” He went on “there are those in our country right now who are trying to weaponize despair. They are flooding the zone and they are hoping that...
by Kate | Apr 19, 2025 | kind promises
Buddhists have a slogan: “no hope, no fear.” Both hope and fear yank us us out of the present moment and move us into an imaginary future. Whether we see sunny skies or black clouds depends on a variety of causes and conditions, from genetic predisposition to whether...
by Kate | Mar 18, 2025 | kind promises
“When faced with illness of any sort, uncertainty can become overbearing and nearly crippling,” said the folks at JenCare Senior Medical Center. “With so many unanswered questions, it’s normal to begin feeling anxious, overwhelmed, and stressed. However,...
by Kate | Feb 19, 2025 | EQUANIMITY, kind promises
In Buddhist thought, equanimity is one of the four transcendent virtues developed through meditation practice. (The others are kindness, compassion, and sympathetic joy.) These qualities of mind and heart help us cultivate positive behaviors and minimize harmful ones....
