We arrive together at this threshold, known yet unfamiliar. Solitary on the journey yet navigating forward, together, echoes of distant summoning lingers... Pathways, landscapes, feeding, greeting. Rituals of generations arriving, calling, breeding, leaving. . What do we know as our own? or do we simply recognize the whispers of blessings carried along by the breeze? …
“Tasting Mindfulness”
By Jon Kabat-Zinn Have you ever had the experience of stopping so completely, of being in your body so completely, of being in your life so completely, that what you knew and what you didn't know that what had been and what was yet to come, and the way things are right now no longer …
“Clearing” by Martha Postlewait
Do not try to save the whole world or do anything grandiose. Instead, create a clearing in the dense forest of your life and wait there patiently, until the song that is your life falls into your own cupped hands.
“Mornings at Blackwater” by Mary Oliver
For years, every morning, I drank from Blackwater Pond. It was flavored with oak leaves and also, no doubt, the feet of ducks. And always it assuaged me from the dry bowl of the very far past. What I want to say is that the past is the past, and the present is what your …
“I Go Among Trees” by Wendell Berry
I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water. My tasks lie in their places where I left them, asleep like cattle. Then what is afraid of me comes and lives a while in my sight. What it fears in me leaves me, and the fear …
“Working Together” by David Whyte
We shape our self to fit this world and by the world are shaped again the visible and the invisible working together in common cause, to produce the miraculous. I am thinking of the way the intangible air traveled at speed round a shaped wing easily holds our weight. So may we, in this life …
Summer Days
Practice takes many forms. For some, it is yoga movement, mindfully moving the body and attending to the breath to bring body and mind to stillness. For others, it is sitting quietly to attend to breath and gently coax the mind's activity to calm. For others, it's a long bike ride, hike or kayak, feeling the …
Deb Cook’s Deep Peace Practice 