We require a balance between activity and rest. We even need rest from the activities we love, and bring us joy. I explore six different categories of rest and identify how each is uniquely different.
Category: Kingdom of Days
These posts are thoughts about daily living, and how to make the ordinary days mindful and maybe even a little better. Its easy to see each ordinary day as insignificant in the scope of a lifetime, but the vast majority of my lived days will be ordinary days. And the accumulation of these individual days builds the story of my life. So I try to pay attention to what I’m doing in these ordinary days as I build my kingdom of days, my life story.
Life Is Not A Contest
Frank Bruni’s “sandwich board theory of life” helps me realize the futility of viewing life as a contest.
Gifts to My Future Self
Here’s a new technique I’ve been experimenting with that is helping me develop self-compassion.
Life Lessons From a Labyrinth
Three life lessons that emerged from reflecting on a labyrinth walk.
The Wheel of Time and Lessons on Discernment
Although my decisions won’t affect the fate of humanity, I’m finding some lessons on discernment from the Amazon series The Wheel of Time.
The Gift Inside The Gift
Lately I’ve needed help from other people. And that has me thinking about what a blessing this has been.
Seasons of a Life
As I get older, I’m looking at my life as a sequence of seasons.
Don’t Blame the Lettuce
I’m learning a new, more self-compassionate way of making changes in my life. A quote from Thich Nhat Hanh has shifted my perspective.
My Kingdom of Days
Our lives are built largely from the repetition of ordinary days. Both the Church and Bruce Springsteen remind us to pay attention to these days. They matter.
Choose Joy
Each January, I like to choose a one word theme for the year. This theme is intended to provide a mindset anchor – to help me shift some key attitudes in my daily life and guide my choices of goals and activities for the year. For 2022, my theme is “choose joy.” Usually I pick… Continue reading Choose Joy
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