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Mindfulness

Nature Inspiration

Nature inspiration can recharge our creativity and our wellbeing. Early morning or late evening walks near wetlands are a great way to get inspired to create. If you don’t have wetlands in your area, where can you go to connect with the natural world? Perhaps a nearby park or garden. If you can’t find one, […]

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Mindfulness and Happiness

Mindfulness and happiness go hand in hand in my world. Research has shown that a regular mindfulness practice can support feeling a greater sense of peace, happiness, and wellbeing. One of the habitual patterns of the mind is to ruminate about the past and worry about the future. Neither of these habits tends to be […]

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Knowing Your Inner Landscape

Knowing your inner landscape. What does it mean to become intimately familiar with both our inner landscape and our outer landscape? Do we approach each with a sense of mindful care?   “It is a landscape so familiar to me that sometimes I have felt a species before I saw it.” –Terry Tempest Williams  Knowing your […]

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Finding Freedom with Meditation Practice

Finding freedom with meditation practice is a journey of personal and spiritual growth. We desire freedom from suffering and its causes —loss, grief, uncertainty, fear, self-doubt, lack of self-confidence, anxiety, depression, psychological and physical pain, illness, death. Finding freedom is possible in this moment when we choose to take refuge in our own breath with […]

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Creativity

Changing Vision

My creative vision is changing. My photography has always been a contemporary inquiry into landscape, place, memory, narrative, and meaning. Much of my work has involved focus study of landscape and the notion of equivalence as investigated in the work of Minor White. The work has primarily explored equivalence in relation to emotion. Through the […]

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Creativity

Clarity is Power

Clarity is power. –Buckminster Fuller It’s only 9:30, and I’ve encountered this message twice today, that “Clarity is power.” Yesterday I had an awesome session with my coach, discussing my intentions and action steps for the next month. I’m juggling several projects at once right now, and when you add the business aspects to all […]

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Meditation

Embracing Uncertainty

Embracing uncertainty is a courageous and sometimes terrifying act. The ultimate trust. To let go in the dark.—Carole Maso, Ava   Lately I’m reminded again and again that this life really is about trusting enough to let go in the dark and practice embracing uncertainty. Though we balk at change and uncertainty, the truth is […]

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Open Your Heart to Love

Every day we are surrounded by the miracle of love. We often fail to recognize it because we are too busy or distracted, or we fail to embrace it because we either don’t trust it or we judge ourselves as unworthy. Take time today to be present to the love that surrounds you. Open your […]

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Everyday Pilgrimage

What if we were to approach life as an everyday pilgrimage so that each day we embrace the awe inspired adventure?  “To set out on a pilgrimage is to throw down a challenge to everyday life. Nothing matters now but this adventure.” –Phil Cousineau   Some days I travel while at home—I travel through a […]

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Mindful Writing

Review of The Mindful Writer by Dinty W. Moore

Naturally, I was thrilled when Dinty W. Moore contacted me and asked if he could send me an advance copy of his latest book, The Mindful Writer, for review. Mindfulness and writing are two of my favorite endeavors.   Asked repeatedly to explain how Buddhism has influenced his writing, Moore, also author of The Accidental […]