The vine winds and curls along the deck railing in an explosion of growth.

In the end, he has recuperated from everything and continues to be a cat. I have recovered too!

He eventually wandered back from the forest after having found a disassembled skeleton of a fox.

He built our art barn where creativity and garden tools mingle.

In the garden I plant flowers and food, and in my mind and heart I plant connection through gratitude.

Our mission as humans is to open the heart to the complexity of life and keep showing up for ourselves, the world, and each other.

I find myself in need of practice. It takes practice to hold it all in compassion, but the other options are to collapse into fatigue and hopelessness or press forward in denial.

Be courageous and take a moment to see for yourself the lovable qualities of those you dislike.

My practice has taught me that I don't always need to solve every feeling, but instead I can be a friend to myself until it passes. How are you being a friend to yourself?

Give yourself permission to be a verb rather than a noun and live in alignment with change. Give your family and friends permission to be different too. Maybe what someone said last year or last week or last hour has changed

We can learn from everything and everyone. Light yourself up. This world is a gift.

Yesterday, I found a new animal trail between some trees and decided to see where it went.

Let's not waste the opportunity to let go of worries and fears and turn with a curious and open mind towards gratitude for what we do have and what we can give.

What are you devoted to? Action in alignment with purpose becomes devotion and re-enchants the world.

Sometimes when things become overwhelming or uncertain, the only way forward is to love yourself even if (especially if) you have found a fungus patch in your own heart.

The hops vine must be growing an inch or two a day, spiraling around in its upward trajectory.

It might be that no one will be able to tell what you have done with your practice but the results will be felt in a sense of ease and resilience.

Meditation is the practice of being intimately present in any moment. And that the practice of awakening can and does happen anywhere and anytime rather than being limited to a meditation hall or yoga mat.