by Kate | Jun 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Kind promise: I will release and receive. (Breathe) I have come to the end of another cycle of kind promises. What now? Out of nowhere comes the thought: it’s about breathing. Breathe out. Breathe in. Release. Receive. In the wake of the death of a hard drive...
by Kate | Mar 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Kind Promise: I will experience this moment. When I wrote my kind promises for 2013, I added in parentheses after this one “to come to my senses.” It’s easy for me to get lost in my mind. I have an unfortunate habit of believing that my thoughts are The Truth or even...
by Kate | Feb 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
Kind Promise: I will celebrate this moment. Every night, as I go to sleep, I listen to audiobooks. I’ve been doing this for 25 years, ever since I discovered that listening to a story shuts off my worrying monkey mind. I listen to the same books over and over...
by Kate | May 18, 2012 | connectedness, kind promises, meditation
Kind Promise: I will Celebrate Connections. I put myself in the center of the universe. I don’t mean to do it but, on most days, I move through the world as though I am the point around which everything else revolves. I am comforted to know that I am not the...
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...
