by Kate | Jun 8, 2012 | Disability, kind promises, meditation, Surrender
Kind promise: I will be tender with weakness. Wednesday I had computer problems. While I could read e-mail, I couldn’t respond to it or use my assistive software to do any typing. Visiting new websites wasn’t working well. I was very frustrated. I spend...
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 | Apr 27, 2012 | Creativity, meditation, mindfulness, monsters
Practicing mindfulness of the moment brings me to be more conscious of what happens when I’m not in the moment. It makes me more aware of my monster-mind. The other day, I was painting (yay!). In the moment, I am watching blobs of color interact with paper and...
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...
by Kate | Nov 26, 2011 | Creativity, meditation
>Art Every Day Month is drawing to a close and I find myself thinking – as I did last year at this time – that I should extend this habit as a kind of visual journal. I have no illusions that I am a Great Artiste. I only know that painting delights and calms me. Art...
