Toning the OM

07/08/2024

Monday Meditation.

07/04/2024

Happy Independence Day!

This work is one of approximately 300 pieces that Danh Vo created, each one a full-sized replica of one section of the Statue of Liberty. Every copper piece is designed in the same way as the original sculpture by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, with a thin sheet of metal hammered into shape.

📍 Norton Museum of Art
📷 Mary Anne Flanagan

06/22/2024

Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape …"
―Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

06/20/2024

“Attention is the beginning of devotion.” —Mary Oliver

06/08/2024

Saturday Meditation.

05/30/2024

Thursday's Meditation.

05/27/2024

Land of the Free,
Because of the Brave.
🇺🇸 ❤️

05/24/2024

Happy Friday, y'all!

05/21/2024

After a vicious thunderstorm last night, the sky opened and this cloud appeared. It was a reminder that storms pass.

05/18/2024

"The purpose of mediation practice is not enlightenment’ it is to pay attention even at unextraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life." --Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard

05/10/2024

“Where to begin? Do we measure the relaxing of the feet? The moment when the eye glimpses the hawk, when instinct functions? For in this pure action, this pure moving of the bird, there is no time, no space, but only the free doing-being of this very moment -now!”
—Peter Matthiessen

05/06/2024

Meditation :: go below the waves. Find the stillness beneath the surface.

05/04/2024

“May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.”
—John O'Donohue, Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong

05/02/2024

Meditation is the bridge between longing and belonging.

05/01/2024

“We cannot be present and run our story-line at the same time.”
—Pema Chödrön

04/29/2024

Sometimes we have to go off the trail to be on our path.

04/22/2024

Happy Earth Day! May we always remember how blessed we are. Let’s be kind to this beautiful planet. 🌍❤️

04/20/2024

David Newman, rest in love, in peace, and in song. Thank you for your light, waves of healing sounds, and generous spirit. Your mantras of love live on. “Travel Well.”

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04/10/2024

Kindness is the stem that holds up the flower.

03/31/2024

Easter is a time for new beginnings, hope, and miracles. Wishing you all a Happy Easter.

📷 Julia Butterfly by Mary Anne Flanagan

03/27/2024

“The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness.”
—Jon Kabat-Zinn

03/25/2024

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03/22/2024

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03/20/2024

Spring! More light than dark. More growth from the shadows. More love for one another.

03/10/2024

If you are truly aware of five minutes a day, then you are doing pretty well.
— Peter Matthiessen

03/08/2024

Notice the gift/s right in front of you.

02/29/2024

What big 'Leap' are you willing to take today?

02/28/2024

How would it feel if our daily pace included a daily pause?

02/24/2024

Everything we do is training for kindness.

02/23/2024

“Meditation teaches us how to relate to life directly, so we can truly experience the present moment, free from conceptual overlay.” Pema Chödrön

The simple act of stopping, says Pema Chödrön, is the best way to cultivate our good qualities. Here are five ways meditation makes us better people.