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.”
This is British author Susie Boyt’s seventh novel and the first published in the US. It’s exquisite.
While I love many genres, there is probably nothing I love more than contemporary literature—really gorgeous, high-quality fiction writing that pulses with life—perhaps because truly sublime, literate writing is so rare and so precious.
Soft rain
Airplane high in the sky
Siren in the distance
Airplane
Siren Siren Siren
Siren who o o o o o o ooooo
Airplane diminishing, vanishing
Rain plopping through the hemlock trees
outside my window
Siren, way in the distance.
The hum of the city.
Life! Movement. Energy!
Nature quietly, softly, holding it all.
My breath
The tingling in my lips
The warmth of my
hand on my heart.
I’m here, too.
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.
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