Your mediation will be an act of observation. Watch the breath waves, and watch the thought waves as they rise and fall. Approach the process with kindness and curiosity. There is no right and wrong here. There is only the blissful moment of you sitting with you. As you observe the waves rising and falling, […]
Corinne. Corinne. Corinne.” I repeated the name to myself a few times, as I always do when I meet someone new, as if attempting to stitch it into the fabric of my mind. Having recently relocated to Miami, from the German part of Switzerland, I figured this name should hold easily in the memory bank. […]
It was during my first summer living in Switzerland that I began to fully appreciate the diversity and bounty of the world of the simple tomato. There was a barn on the shore of lake Zug which served as home to a little shop of earthly delights. The Biohof, it was called, and as you […]
Today is the day of the New Moon. It is the preferred time to plant, both ‘real’ seeds and the seeds of new intentions. The sky is at it’s darkest for the 28 day moon cycle. The moon turns her lighted face away from us, and shows us her dark side. As you look up […]
When I was 13, I had a biology teacher named Mr. Parker. As I recall, he was a ‘nice’ man – short and a bit shiny-bald on the top of his head. The students’ parents were very upset because Mr. Parker did not seem to be the ideal candidate for teaching Biology, as he had […]
I have recently relocated to Miami, Florida, and have found myself living in a house overlooking Biscayne Bay. To the left of our house, the mainland recedes, then arcs around, hugging the bay, and crests into the distance. The predominantly green, lush gardens of Coconut Grove, punctuated by houses peeping through the foliage, and motor […]
Walk slowly
Be silent
Listen
The sky above you
Is full of the wisdom of eternity
You never get it wrong
Do you remember playing in a stream as a child? And making dams and bridges and setting leaves and sticks and paper boats free to catch the current downstream? The water never stopped flowing, did it? No matter your most gallant efforts, the water always found a way to flow. Well, what if there were […]
