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Settling Into the Miracle of What Is
Settling into the miracle of what is may be all that our heart ever needs. How to do that is an ancient dilemma, a constant in humanity, and as such, perhaps the source of the miracle we seek. “Every...
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Thursday Tidbits: I’ll Take the Unknown
Today’s Thursday Tidbits swirls around the unknown, where creativity and courage reside, and where we humans fear to tread with any kind of regular practice. For me, it has been a week that has offered...
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Refuge in Winter
Yesterday was not the day I anticipated—it was so much more–always is, no matter the day. Anticipation is never present and always future, sometimes tinged with memory. In these days of living life...
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Thursday Tidbits: The Inner Wolves
This week’s Thursday Tidbits is my February post as part of the Bloggers for Peace movement. At least once a month, over 100 bloggers dedicate at least one blog post to peace and its many facets. On...
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Thursday Tidbits: Fearlessness and Faucets
Learning fearlessness is like applying just the right amount of pressure to the handle of a leaky faucet spout, trial and error. All things (and people) wear out, which may just be the root of all fear...
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A Matter of Practice
Since I began practicing present moment awareness, I have known dark moments, even despair at times. It’s not as if the mere practice of present moment awareness means all is light for not all is nor...
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Thursday Tidbits: Neurosis Interrupted
This week’s Thursday Tidbits post ponders neurosis or what Pema Chödrön refers to as Training in the Three Difficulties: “The three difficulties (or the three difficult practices) are: 1. “to recognize...
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On a Slow Boat to Fitness
“You may be a wonderful doodlekit” is the phrase that opened a February blog post a year ago, almost to the day. It was, of course, an unsolicited statement. In the year that has passed, I have not...
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Thursday Tidbits: the 11th Possibility
This week’s Thursday Tidbits considers the 11th possibility as defined on rarasaur’s wonderful blog series, Prompts for the Promptless. The series is not just for bloggers but for anyone who wants to...
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Confessions of a Fixer: Does a Warrior Lurk Within?
KMHuberImage Warrior is not a concept that has ever described me for I have lived my life as a fixer. Now in my sixties, I can only hope that fixer is a permanent past tense characteristic. It is not...
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Thursday Tidbits: The Fragrance of Forgiveness
This week’s Thursday Tidbits post considers forgiveness, which is also the Bloggers for Peace challenge for March. Forgiveness may be the heart of peace but giving and getting forgiveness from the...
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Staying and Straying: The Tension of Two
KMHuberImage The fear of letting go makes staying hard and straying easy. As Mark Nepo says, it is “so hard to feel the stone and not the ripple.” It is the tension of trying to be in two places at...
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Thursday Tidbits: The Wu Wei In All of Us
This week’s Thursday Tidbits post considers Taoism’s “wu wei,” literally translated as non-doing or non action. Reaching for the good that is in all of us—listening to our heart over our head—is innate...
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Joy Without the Hangover
KMHuberImage The “trust in our fresh, unbiased nature brings us unlimited joy– happiness is completely devoid of clinging and craving. This is the joy of happiness without a hangover” (Pema Chödrön,...
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Thursday Tidbits: Digging Deep for “Meraki”
This week’s Thursday Tidbits considers meraki, a modern Greek word for that “extra something” we add to whatever we’re doing, no matter the task. Usually intangible and often inexplicable, meraki helps...
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On My Way to the Way With Everyone Else
I do not believe there is only one way for everyone—never have—but rather, we are all on our way to the Way. We have various labels for the Way–Christianity, Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism—regardless, the...
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Thursday Tidbits: The Zen of Kitchen Tasks and Meditating Cats
This week’s Thursday Tidbits post considers Zen as revealed through meditating cats and kitchen tasks, the everyday of Zen spirituality. “Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God...
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Shedding: An Act of Immortality
KMHuberImage Spring knows many faces but regardless, it is renewal, a restoring to existence. Present moment awareness is like spring in that each moment is new, unattached to any outcome, full of the...
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In Buddha Nature, No Excuse is Necessary
KMHuberImage “The reason everything looks beautiful is because it is out of balance, but its background is always in perfect harmony. This is how everything exists in the realm of Buddha nature, losing...
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Thursday Tidbits: A Lasting Innocence
This week’s Thursday Tidbits considers April’s Bloggers for Peace theme, children and peace. Whenever I think of children, I think of animals for both remind that life on the physical plane is ever...
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