by Kate | Mar 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
Kind Promise: I will experience this moment. Yesterday, I watched an interview with artist Ann Rea, whom I admire because she does beautiful work and markets her work creatively. By the end of the interview, however, I found myself blowing a raspberry in her...
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 | 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...
by Kate | Apr 13, 2012 | chronic illness, Disability, kind promises, mindfulness
“I embrace this moment” is a wonderful idea, but I’m having trouble with the implementation. I spend much of my time planning for the future and, considering the circumstances of my life right now, that makes sense. My husband just got a new job, my...
by Kate | Apr 6, 2012 | kind promises, meditation, mindfulness
My kind promise for this month is “to embrace the moment.” This is a simple idea and a week of observation tells me that I don’t often do it. I spend my mental time in three places: Concentration/absorption in the task of the moment – this might be...