mindfulness

  • What If…

    What If…

      photo: resonancewithlife.com What if… …You took 10 minutes today and took out a sheet of paper and wrote a note to a friend? And what if you took another 5 minutes to put that note in an envelope and mail it to that friend? What if… …You did not interrupt a friend who had…

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  • Preparing for the NanoWrimo Marathon

    The Baltimore Running Festival just concluded last week. I am terribly proud of all of my friends who ran their own race during the event. It was just a year ago that I participated, and to be honest, I missed it this year. As the emotions from a little regret and envy begin to settle,…

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  • Three Reasons Why So Many Resist Mindfulness

    Why is it so hard for us to be mindful on a daily basis? After taking a pretty hard look at my own life, and then at the lives of so many others who have lived and died so desperately in the past few decades, I’ve come to some conclusions. I’m curious to know: Do…

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  • Creative and Uncut: The Seams of Love

    It is a mid-summer’s afternoon –late, and I am standing on the pitcher’s mound, playing catch with my son on a deserted baseball field, surrounded by other empty diamonds and rectangles. In just a few short weeks, these overgrown areas will be filled with children changing lives — late-game heroics and crushing defeats. In the…

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  • As we get ready to head back to school for the new academic year, I am aware of a movement that is sweeping across the country to make students and educators more mindful of their learning and their teaching. It is flying right in the face of high-stakes testing and assessment, but is it really…

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  • Mindfulness in the Heart of Baltimore

      I don’t know if you have ever read or seen Ambrose Bierce’s “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” but yesterday, walking mindfully through Baltimore on my way to a photo shoot for my new gig writing for our local paper, I had one of those “occurrences” in everything that I saw, heard, and felt. If…

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