by Kate | Jun 17, 2015 | kind promises, Uncategorized
Kind promise: I will be tender with weaknesses. “When it comes to the crusty behavior of some people, give them the benefit of the doubt. They may be drowning right before your eyes, but you can’t see it. And you’d never ask someone to drown with a smile...
by Kate | Dec 24, 2013 | kind promises, Surrender
Kind promise: I will forgive with wild abandon I’ve been listening to Jon Kabat-Zinn on pain. He encourages us, as we feel uncomfortable, not to run away from it. Instead, he speaks of turning toward and opening to the sensations in our bodies. I use the phrase...
by Kate | Dec 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
Kind promise: I will forgive with wild abandon. “If I’m going to keep this promise… And make it through January,” I thought, “I need to forgive my body.[1]” We (my healthcare providers, caregivers and I) are scheduling a colostomy for January. Underneath my pragmatic,...
by Kate | Dec 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
It’s the beginning of a new month, but before I send my newsletter out, so I am caught between two kind promises: I will love without keeping score and I will forgive with wild abandon. This morning, serendipitously (through Gretchen Rubin’s “Moment of Happiness”),...
