Change happens often like an impending storm. The air intensifies. We feel unsettled or uncertain. We have a sense of life shifting and we dig in…or we head […]
Change happens often like an impending storm. The air intensifies. We feel unsettled or uncertain. We have a sense of life shifting and we dig in…or we head […]
My daughter took this photo at the Mauna Kea Observatory a few years ago. We had come to Hawaii for a week of exploration – the tropical forests, the […]
Our wisdom, honed through our experiences and knowledge, is often the highest gift we can offer others. Sharing that wisdom, as presenters, educators, coaches and consultants, is an […]
So many of us have had exactly this kind of moment in recent months – that sense of aloneness in the presence of a vast sky, mostly dark, hoping […]
How might I honor my desire to write and hold fast to the work of my life? That is one of the questions I have been living into […]
In this photo, I’m getting ready for a speech, the audience is settling into the conference room, I’ve taken a selfie to send home to my family to […]
On Friday morning, as my daughter hauled laundry from her room, and I shifted the towels of the house to the dryer, noting that my partner’s daughters had […]
Published, Kripalu online, April 2019 “To be fully alive, fully human and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. Pema Chodron A small robin […]
"Life is harsh, crazy, capricious and unjust and wondrous, surprising, bountiful, and beautiful. Both are true. How we navigate these realities is the challenge of living today. We cannot adhere only to despair else we dismiss all that is life-giving. Nor can we deny the awfulness of life; that would be delusional. We must find a way, within ourselves, and with each other to acknowledge, recognize and diminish the dark wherever we can while elevating the good."
Maria Sirois