Listening to my first audiobook Embracing the Unknown, by Buddhist author/teacher Pema Chodron, a perfect selection for now. It’s not a classic book but a lecture series from a retreat on the Tibetan Book of the Dead and I find it engaging and oddly reassuring. I listen to each chapter as Ruby and I takeContinue reading “Embracing the Unknown”
Tag Archives: spring
abandon hope
The crocuses are the first sign of impending spring. Three of them arrive in a boisterous clump on the front lawn every year around this time. As always, I am elated. I don’t put much stock in groundhogs but crocuses have a firsthand relationship with the earth; their appearance means something. I know that theyContinue reading “abandon hope”
grace and dirt 