Essentially, I’ve been on a news fast for about a month and a half. I’ve avoided the news like the plague. It’s not that I don’t want to be informed but that I went into a kind of information overload. All the news is bad news – everyone knows that. Otherwise, it wouldn’t make headlines. [...]
The list of things I should be doing today is probably too long to post, and I’m not feeling up to them anyway. So instead I’ll post the few things that I plan to do today instead. Go to a bookstore to explore books on systems thinking and Buddhism. Hit the grocery store and pickup milk [...]
As I write this, my neighbors are running their gas-powered leaf blowers. (I confess to having not one but two such devices in my shed.) I am wondering how I will handled the leaves this year. There are literally thousands of leaves in the lawn. In the past, I’ve used the heavy artillery of the [...]
Only in rare instances, have I read a book cover to cover in less than 24 hours. These instances are usually marked by three things: having a lot of time on my hands, having few distractions in my immediate environment, and having a book that I find absolutely compelling. This was the case with Mindfully [...]
As anyone who knows me well will tell you, I love food. I spend a great deal of my free time cooking, often as a form of stress relief. Even this morning, I was thinking about how I’m going to make some chicken corn soup this afternoon to go with this dreary, cold, grey, and [...]