by Kate | Mar 25, 2014 | mindfulness, Uncategorized
Kind promise: I will open to each moment. Life is always full of miracles, even when we forget to see them. It was noon on March 23 and lazy snowflakes drifted from the gray sky. They settled on gray snow banks, dirtied by sand and salt and people too winter weary to...
by Kate | Mar 18, 2014 | kind promises, mindfulness
Kind promise: I will open to each moment. The snow on the ground is mushy and dirty. The light slanting through my bedroom shades this morning seemed the same. I’m tired of the winter, tired of being cold, tired of not being able to go outside. I’ve been wanting...
by Kate | Mar 4, 2014 | kind promises, mindfulness, Uncategorized
Kind promise: I will open to each moment. Mindfulness has gone mainstream! From a TIME Magazine cover to the PBS News Hour, folks are touting the advantages of being aware of each moment. On March 1, as I turned my calendar from a month of surrender to one of...
by Kate | Dec 4, 2012 | meditation, mindfulness, Transformation
Here I am at another beginning not scared this time nor excited, exactly but aware. Noticing an empty space that before was filled-filled-filled busy-busy-busy and now it’s not. I like it here in this cavernous now but no sooner do I arrive than...
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 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...
