When you’re here From here, oh,you can hold yourself,so you can laugh. Free to exploreall manner of things. When you’re here,an i in the O-cean,you’re no longer waitingfor something to happen or to change. When you’re hereyou have what you seek. Your heart opensto the gift you receive,that you are. You are drinking at the… Read More »The Well of Being by Jean-Pierre Weill
the radical moveis to enter each dayas a constant nowfree from the clawsof then and nextso you may take the open handof the momentnerved with pure being Maria Popova (2025, An Almanac of Birds) About the author Maria Popova is a Bulgarian-American essayist, cultural critic and poet who has built a devoted following through her… Read More »The radical move by Maria Popova
You’ve been staring at your computer screen for hours, jumping between tasks, notifications pinging every few minutes. You decide to take a break and grab your phone to scroll through social media. Fifteen minutes later, you feel even more mentally exhausted. Sound familiar? Here’s the problem: you just replaced one exhausting activity with another. Your… Read More »Try Soft Fascination to Reset Your Brain
Your teenager storms through the door, tears streaming. Your partner comes home defeated after a brutal day. Your friend calls, voice shaking with worry. What’s your first instinct? Jump in with solutions, right? Wrong move! Author Kelly Corrigan learned this the hard way. Every time her daughters brought her problems, she’d brainstorm solutions. The result?… Read More »The Three Word Formula: Stop Fixing, Start Listening
Last Tuesday I was having one of those days. You know the kind. Where your coffee tastes like disappointment, and your to-do list seems like a direct challenge from the universe. I was rushing aimlessly when this orange tabby just… materialised. Right there on Mrs. Chen’s front steps, stretching in a patch of afternoon sun… Read More »Pet the damn cat
