Category Archives: happiness
Paying Attention
I grow weary under the onslaught of information that pervades our wifi world. It is no longer possible to fully participate in work or play, professional or personal relationships and growth without using a screen. Passively (as in television viewing) … Continue reading
That Which I Can Recognize But Never Name
(I recently came across this letter in a file and have decided to re-publish it here. I wrote it to friends in February 2008, about my experiences not long after the death of John O’Donohue – for whom I had … Continue reading
Farm Life
I’m feeling something shifting in my understanding of my way of life. This morning as I woke, I had the familiar thoughts (and accompanying dread) about a clambering to-do- list, “OVERDUE†flashing relentlessly in my skull. Then, for unknown reasons, … Continue reading
Dancing in Every Direction
When I dance, I take steps forward, sideways, backward. I follow a rhythm. I coordinate my movements and rhythm to those of other dancers and the music surrounding me, and I love the creative experience. When I work, I make … Continue reading
Rejeuvenating Creative Energy and Willingness
Where Did My Willingness Go? Lately, I’ve been feeling stuck. I can’t seem to find my willingness to do the things I’ve agreed to do. My pending to-do tasks are piling up and deadlines are boiling into urgency. Something needs … Continue reading
Abiding Questions
Every Sunday morning, my dad and I use iChat to have a video-conference. He calls it “having breakfast together.” (I think of it as our “Jetson Family Moment.”) Last Sunday, as I sipped my coffee and jiggled the headset connection, … Continue reading
Traveling Thoughts
I’m heading out for Colorado this week. Â I’ll be driving. Road trip! I love to drive across the country and am busy planning and packing. I want to be well-prepared. The hours of solitude are like a personal retreat for … Continue reading
Happiness & Possibility
Pursuit of Happiness During the embattled years of law school, a friend and I clung together in our metaphorical fox-hole, confiding to one another all that was scary, going wrong, or likely to go wrong. We’d spend hours (over nachos … Continue reading
The choice:
fitting myself to the system or communicating myself, ‘in my full stature and proportion,’ through the work and the way I choose to do it. –Linda Alvarez “The common experience is that the man fits himself as well as he … Continue reading