by Kate | May 25, 2012 | connectedness, kind promises
Kind Promise: I will celebrate connections. Today I am celebrating my online connections. Some people are not happy with online culture. They fear that people will forget how to be physically present with each other, that people will no longer make eye contact or...
by Kate | May 18, 2012 | connectedness, kind promises, meditation
Kind Promise: I will Celebrate Connections. I put myself in the center of the universe. I don’t mean to do it but, on most days, I move through the world as though I am the point around which everything else revolves. I am comforted to know that I am not the...
by Kate | May 10, 2012 | kind promises
Kind Promise: I will Celebrate Connections May 1 is a high holy day for me. Ten days ago in predawn darkness, my husband helped me get my wheelchair down one hill and up another in a forested park overlooking the Mississippi River. This year, many of the trees were...
by Kate | Apr 20, 2012 | chronic illness, kind promises, mindfulness, Uncategorized
Maybe “embrace” is not the right word for what I want to do with each moment. The first part of embrace works fine. Opening my arms (and heart and mind) wide to the moment is exactly what I want to do with my life. Closing my arms around the moment and...
by Kate | Apr 13, 2012 | chronic illness, Disability, kind promises, mindfulness
“I embrace this moment” is a wonderful idea, but I’m having trouble with the implementation. I spend much of my time planning for the future and, considering the circumstances of my life right now, that makes sense. My husband just got a new job, my...
by Kate | Apr 6, 2012 | kind promises, meditation, mindfulness
My kind promise for this month is “to embrace the moment.” This is a simple idea and a week of observation tells me that I don’t often do it. I spend my mental time in three places: Concentration/absorption in the task of the moment – this might be...
