Grace

“Don’t make assumptions.”~ Don Miguel Ruiz ~ This is The Third Agreement. You don’t know. You think you do. You fill in the silence with a story. The unanswered text becomes rejection. The look across the room becomes judgment. The quiet becomes something to worry about. It’s not real. It’s a story you wrote without…

“In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.”~ John Muir ~ Here’s a little experiment. Go for a walk today with no goal. Don’t count steps, don’t listen to anything, don’t try to figure anything out. Maybe you just want to stretch your legs. Then you notice the light coming through…

“We need to learn to use technology in a way that promotes mindfulness and balance, rather than mindlessness and addiction.”~Arianna Huffington~ Tink doesn’t need a routine for this. He just does it. Game’s over, glove comes off, phone stays in the bag a little longer. He takes it all in first — the field, the…

“He who is in harmony with Nature hits the mark without effort and apprehends the truth without thinking.”~Confucius (paraphrase, Doctrine of the Mean)~ Some things you can’t force. You can study a river for years and still not understand it the way you do standing at its edge for five quiet minutes. Harmony isn’t something…

“It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.”~ Senator John McCain ~ Today we pause. Twenty-five years ago, everything changed in a single morning. Nearly 3,000 lives lost. Countless more forever altered. We remember them… A moment of silence and reflection …never forget. The…

“It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.”~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ Nobody tells you that when you start. You just pick a direction and go. Some days the road is smooth. Some days you’re white-knuckling it through weather you didn’t see coming. Either way, you’re moving. Either way, something is happening to you — and…