by Kate | Apr 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
Kind promise: I will celebrate connections. Into a month where I am writing about connection comes the news of my brother-in-law’s suicide. The family is thrumming at this tear in our web. How could we not have seen such pain? Why did he not ask for help? I remember...
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 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”),...
by Kate | Nov 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
Kind promise: I will love without keeping score. While it would be possible to practice the Kind Promises without believing in a Higher Power, it sure makes it easier to have one. Take love, for instance. I don’t like thinking about love without thinking about a...
by Kate | Nov 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
Kind promise: I will love without keeping score. Love is so big and I feel small when I think of it. Sometimes, that’s a good thing. Imagining love as something grand and infinite, seeing myself as a single-celled amoeba in an ocean of love is about right. It...
