Finding joy in everyday life often begins with noticing what is already around us. I have the habit of collecting moments of delight and wonder. These are quiet, unassuming encounters that uplift my soul and reveal the brightness of life. Sometimes I chance upon a small kindness that renews my faith in others; other times
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Everyday mindfulness and the wonder of being here Everyday mindfulness invites us to appreciate the life unfolding in this very moment. In his autobiography, Speak Memory, Vladimir Nabokov wrote that “life is a slim crack of light between two eternities of darkness.” Take a fraction of that briefest spark, and we arrive at a day
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Understanding our relationship with money Our relationship with money reflects both the pressures around us and the patterns within us. We are living with harrowing geopolitical uncertainty. The economy teeters on a knife’s edge. Expenses strain our accounts; prices insult our wallets. The cost of living exacts a toll on our wellbeing, both physical and
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Wholeness in the changing seasons It’s Earth Day. Outside my window, the leaves of oaks and maples are unfurling from buds. The air carries fragrance. The cherries and magnolias are in full bloom – an effusion of pink and white regales the streets. Everyday I watch the garden burst forth with shoots of green and
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Acceptance without giving up on change We are living in a modern iteration of the Book of Revelations. Housing affordability, economic uncertainty, political turmoil, war, inequality and climate change have coalesced into what Edgar Morin has called the Polycrisis. The pressures of life can fracture our psyche and erode our wellbeing. This fractious state of
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Marcus Aurelius (121 CE – 180CE) was a Roman Emperor and follower of the Stoicism, a philosophical tradition that prizes virtue and fortitude amid life’s challenges. Widely considered a wise ruler, Marcus Aurelius leaves behind a precious volume of his own reflections titled “Meditations.” I read this book many years ago while backpacking through Europe.
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Meeting political anxiety with steadiness Political anxiety can unsettle our sense of stability and leave us searching for perspective. We have entered a tumultuous time. The new US administration sends waves of uncertainty throughout the political and economic landscape. Talk of tariffs has frayed the trade relationship between the US and Canada. The US’ withdrawal from the Paris
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In a recent conversation, a friend asked me the difference between reading books and scrolling on a phone: “If you lament the bus riders with their eyes locked on their screens, might you not also bemoan the same absorption if everyone was reading books?” The question led me to ponder the qualitative difference between the
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I picked up the guitar at the age of 17. As a teen, I loved hard-rock music: Bryan Adams, Steven Curtis Chapman, Eric Clapton, Metallica, and many more. The brawn and sizzle of an overdriven guitar was the soundtrack of my youth. My mother bought me my first guitar and amp: a black Squire Stratocaster, and a
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Reclaiming attention in a world of screens When Bankei was preaching at Ryumon temple, a Shinshu priest, who believed in salvation through the repetition of the name of the Buddha of Love, was jealous of his large audience and wanted to debate with him. Bankei was in the midst of talk when the priest appeared,
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