Remember how to connect – in person!
Last Saturday, my husband and I got together with my two brothers and their wives. It’s the first time in about two years because of pandemic separations. There is something wonderful about being in the same room, breathing the same air. Yet, I immediately started to...
6 pieces of wisdom I learned from illness
Each month, I try to look at the intersection of illness with my current blog subject. Lately, I’ve been writing about the Buddhist paramita of wisdom. At its core, wisdom is about seeing and understanding the truth. When I was diagnosed (at age 20) with an incurable,...
Meditation revolutionary
I am sitting meditationin this bodydamaged from yearsof neural degradationhere I sittorso pocked with scarsfrom surgeries designedto keep it all runningto keep me aliveand mostly functioningwho knew it would bea revolutionary actto sit with this bodywith kind...
how to “hang in there” when you are ill
When we are so ill that being sick seems like our whole world, how can the Buddhist notion of “exertion” help us? Exertion doesn’t mean hard work (though being sick is hard work.) Instead, it’s about showing up even when we don’t want to and, more than that, showing...
four disciplines that help when you are ill
A friend was behind in her book club reading. “I have to read four chapters,” she sighed. Editing herself, she amended “I choose to read four chapters.” I suggested “you get to read four chapters.” She was re-ordering her thinking as we listened. Living with chronic...Subscribe to the monthly newsletter
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