Mindfulness Plain and Simple

I left the big city about 20 years past and the smaller city nearly 6 years ago. Now I live in a sleepy town that affords me many luxuries, one of which is not having to lock my car. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t; I always return to it undisturbed. This was not...

Play it Again Sam

Remember vinyl records? The way the turn table revolves?  The sound of the needle as you place it down on the record? Picture yourself setting the needle in the first groove, it needle winds itself along the well-worn track, singing the whole song from start to...

Mindfulness Doesn’t Care

“Mindfulness doesn’t care.”  That is what my teaching partner said to the group of teenagers who eagerly listened, hungry to learn from us. I get (and love) where she was coming from, however, the way I like to phrase it is that mindfulness has no hierarchy of...

Middle Way Parenting

A colleague of mine, who has been practicing and teaching meditation for a long time, said to me, “Before I had kids I never knew how angry I could feel.”  Ahh, sigh. Our kids bring out the best and the worst in us at times.  And yet isn’t it sooo taboo to feel angry,...