I heard this expression somewhere recently, and immediately switched: no news before noon.
It’s perfect.
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I feel better about the world having ridden home on the bus yesterday in the rain.
Normally, I walk home from the chiropractor’s, a healthy half-hour uphill. But to my surprise, I felt a light rain slowly starting as I left the office. I quickly checked my phone and saw it was about to pour! I had come out without an umbrella.
This week, my dear friend SB mentioned these two lines from Mary Oliver’s poem The Summer Day:
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
– Mary Oliver
I instantly recognized this query as one threading through my thoughts over recent months—with a twist.
A couple of weeks ago, my friend Scott Ressler, a film producer at National Geographic, and I hosted a gathering called Digital Mindfulness: A Conversation on Balance.
My primary takeaway? I LOVED IT!
I’ve read and listened to a lot on this topic. This was the first conversation I’ve heard within a spiritual context; specifically that of our loving Buddhist sangha at The Center for Mindful Living.
It was so sweet! And so real and resonant.
Since the start of the year, my early morning meditation class has been focusing on the Eightfold Path, the Buddha’s wise recipe for liberation.
We’re using Gil Fronsdal’s lucid, practical introduction, Steps to Liberation: The Buddha’s Eightfold Path, as our guide. Fronsdal says, “Having the Eightfold Path mature within you is one of the great joys of Buddhist practice. It brings confidence, strength, ease, freedom, and so much more.”
I’ve been wondering about a lot of things lately. I think the throughline might be aging.
I’m noticing a feeling of overwhelm. It might be for real—as in, anyone in like circumstances would feel this way—or, it might be about aging. I wonder.