by Kate | Jul 27, 2012 | kind promises, Uncategorized
Kind Promise: I will share strengths. Paratransit provides transportation for those of us with disabilities who can’t use fixed route vehicles.For me it’s also a classroom. I am always learning from my fellow passengers. The other day, a woman with mental...
by Kate | Jun 27, 2012 | Forgiveness, kind promises, Surrender, Uncategorized
Kind Promise: I will be tender with weaknesses. I yelled at my husband the other day. I was swearing and shouting. This was Not Good and it made both of us feel pretty awful. It didn’t change any part of the situation that set me off. Then I had an aha moment. I...
by Kate | Jun 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
Kind Promise: I will be tender with weaknesses. I have been practicing being tender with weaknesses for three weeks now and I am ready to be done with it. Isn’t that the way of it? Tender and patient is fine for a little while and then I want to move on. I want...
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 | Jan 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
>My kind promise to myself for this month is to live joyfully without reason.In early January, I wondered whether to choose a different promise next. My mother died at the end of December. Perhaps joy would be hard to come by or an inappropriate thing for which to...
by Kate | Jan 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
>I can’t leave the topic of forgiveness without saying a few words about forgiveness and chronic illness.It is easy for me to feel I did something that caused me to become ill or, since my illness is progressive, something that’s making it worse....
