by Kate | Aug 6, 2019 | Chronic healing, kind promises, Transformation
In Buddhist thought, there is an idea called “impermanence.” It’s a recognition that life is always changing. Just when you think you have things sorted, something shifts and you need to adapt. During these times of change, I use the kind promise “I will reinvent...
by Kate | Sep 25, 2018 | kind promises, Transformation
One of the things I am reinventing this month is my art practice. I think wistfully about the days when I could just pick up a brush and make a “mess painting.” I would wet the brush and then wet each oval in my watercolor set. That would wake up the paint. Then I...
by Kate | Sep 22, 2018 | kind promises, Transformation
Suppose one day you find yourself in a dark and musky wood thinking your life must be otherwise and you’d change it if only you could resist the urge to scream and run or to jump and thrash around rather sit straight and just gently breathe let your thoughts...
by Kate | Sep 15, 2018 | kind promises, Transformation, Well-being
invited to reinvention and returning from four months in bed, I am tempted to make things complicated. In previous years, faced with this promise, I have looked at what’s working and what’s not working, determined to problem solve to improve my life. Or perhaps I...
by Kate | Mar 21, 2018 | connectedness, kind promises, Transformation, Vulnerability, Well-being
It’s spring and time for gardening metaphors. It’s snowing outside in Minneapolis and yet this feels like winter kissing us goodbye. The temperature and the soil are warming, ready to make a hospitable environment for plants. Gardeners know, though, that enriching the...
by Kate | Aug 22, 2017 | Disability, mindfulness, Transformation
Yesterday, as the solar eclipse made its way across the US, many of us took a few minutes to unplug, gather together and look up. We paid attention to the light and celebrated the present moment with one another. (It was raining in Minneapolis, so we commiserated...
