SERMON SERIES STEPHANIE HARPER [Finishing Line Press, 88 pages] Anyone who’s ever sat in a church pew should read this...
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The challenges of eating on a different continent Having spent the holidays in Europe with my two young adult children...
According to the Yoga Alliance’s 2016 report on Yoga in America, “36.7 million Americans or 15 percent of U.S. adults...
Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier (24)” streams at 29 percent volume while I write this. My go-to writing music, Baroque, floats wave-like...
Don’t be swept up by the river of popular notions and emotions. “If a man going down into a river,...
We grow from imaginative play with the world In a mind-drifting moment during Yoga practice this morning, I flashed on...
The inheritances we carry Just like any mother, I didn’t want to make any mistakes—minor or crippling. So when it...
Bhavana, meaning to cultivate or develop but commonly used in Buddhism as a word for meditation, once again flashes before...
At 55, those delightful yoga sessions that instantly feel delicious deep down in the sinews and muscles, triggering pleasure sensors...
She has slept away her first five days here, awakening only to fret, face swallowed up in full furrowed brows,...
Ghosting: I learned this term today perusing social media. It means being cut off and cut out of someone else’s...
Tripping on sounds, I hear birds outside my window, muffled, over the swish-throb of a heartbeat in my ears, a...
Pratyahara and pencils populate my thoughts today. Back to school, I can smell the freshly sharpened pencils—not that anyone sharpens...
“The drops are fat and heavy,” my daughter observes. “Yes, but sparse, despite the force of the pour, like you...
My 19-year-old Eagle (Eastern Washington University Eagle) and I speak most days about her training, school, roommates and life in...
Walking out of the market, it suddenly hit me. Something different. Oh, that’s right. No one asked me if I...
“Compassion is a verb.” – Thich Nhat Hanh I teach writing. My community college students cannot escape my class—or at...
