Posted in care, community, relationships, religion, tagged postaday2011 on April 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Last week I had the great good fortune to see the documentary Koran by Heart at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film tracks the lives of several young people who are contestants in “the world’s preeminent Koran recitation competition in Cairo, where Muslim children come from across the globe to perform in front of a [...]
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Posted in celebration, choices, clarity, courage, tagged postaday2011 on April 29, 2011 | 3 Comments »
“What we see is mainly what we look for.” -Unknown via Tiny Buddha I recently had a conversation with someone who said nothing ever goes her way. She’s been way down in the dumps for years. I have my occasional bad day, perhaps even a bad week. By all means, feel your feelings. Just make [...]
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Posted in books, career, courage, encouragement, experience, leader, leadership, tagged postaday2011 on April 28, 2011 | 5 Comments »
“New seed is faithful. It roots deepest in the places that are most empty…And so it came to be that over time this field, opened by burning – this field, fallow and waiting – drew just the right strangers, just the right seeds to itself. What is this faithful process of spirit & seed that [...]
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Posted in music, television on April 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I was tweeting up a storm last night watching NBC’s new show The Voice. In the past I’ve not been a fan of many reality TV shows – they always seem to highlight personality traits that I feel like we should be working on banishing, not praising. The Voice is truly exceptional in concept and [...]
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Posted in teaching, yoga, tagged postaday2011 on April 26, 2011 | 4 Comments »
“Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So… get on your way.” ~ Dr. Seuss I’m just about 4 months into my year of writing about new beginnings. This writing intention has brought a lot of clarity to every aspect of my life and as I look back on these four months of posts, [...]
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Posted in books, inspiration, yoga, tagged postaday2011 on April 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
As a yoga teacher, I’m very interested in getting involved with trauma recovery. I have some personal experience with post-traumatic stress disorder having endured it for a period of a few months following a fire that happened in my apartment building in September 2009. My experience doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of the [...]
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Posted in Easter, holiday, hope, tagged postaday2011 on April 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »
When I was a child, Easter was my favorite holiday. I would get more excited for Easter than I would for Christmas. I got wear a pretty dress and pretty shoes. We’d pack into the car and be to my grandmother’s house in Connecticut by noon. Some of my relatives would meet us there. We’d [...]
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Posted in meditation, tagged postaday2011 on April 23, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I first heard about the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care (NYZCCC) at the Integrative Healthcare Symposium in March. On Monday, I visited the center and attended my first meditation class and dharma talk. We talked about living a dual experience, an especially relevant topic as we sift our way through these confusing times. [...]
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Posted in business, change, creativity, leader, leadership, tagged postaday2011 on April 22, 2011 | 2 Comments »
“We are our boundaries.” ~ George Simmel, Sociologist I read this quote on a blog by one this blog’s supportive readers, bwinwnbwimusic. The quote showed up just as I was thinking about a project I’m currently involved with. The Universe is so wise; it knew exactly the encouragement I needed. The project is not fun [...]
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Posted in education, election, politics, tagged postaday2011 on April 21, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I saw a sign in a store that read, “I can’t wait for the day when we have an education budget that can’t be cut and have to hold a bake sale to fund our weapons program.” As the landscape of the 2012 Presidential Race starts to take shape, I’ve been thinking a lot about [...]
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