Category: Gratitude
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Between the Cookies
Certain foods feel to me like punctuation in my life, those moments where there is a brief pause, something that makes us take notice. I’m not talking about my childhood nightly family dinners, which followed a pattern but the other times, the weekends or family events when my mother would pull out her trusty stand…
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Leading with Gratitude
There’s a question that has been rattling around in my brain for the last few days. Maybe you want to try it as well. Here goes: what if you woke up tomorrow and all that you had is that for which you are grateful today? On the surface, it sounds like a simple question but…
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Where is Stillness?
Label it however you choose, but I have come to accept that I am a person who is never fully at rest, never fully at peace. My entire childhood was spent with my mother asking me to please be still, to sit down, to stop flitting around. My father used to say “Take a breath”…
