Category: Moments of Mindfulness

Published on July 03, 2023

Tasting Green

Earlier this year, I decided I wanted to get away for a month, a real sabbatical. To leave Los Angeles with its traffic and noise and a pattern of living so ingrained. At first, there […]

Moments of Mindfulness
Nature
creek with green shrubs

Published on October 29, 2022

Shadows of Silk

Smooth shadows of silk brush along her legs. She is seven years old and her mother has finished sewing her first gown. It is pale blue with silver pleats and feels like butterflies against her […]

Moments of Mindfulness
Snapshots
mother and daughter

Published on October 25, 2022

Winter Hours – Most Unpredictable

I felt Her closing up shop last night. After weeks and months of being on display, open and wide, She was done. “Close me up. Put me away for a while. Let me eat my […]

Creativity
Moments of Mindfulness
Closed sign on the door "come back soon"

Published on October 14, 2022

Moments of Mindfulness

We walked the other day, just me and my mother. We walked from one sunny end of the street to the end of the block, where my red car was parked. We didn’t walk too far […]

Aging
Moments of Mindfulness
tabby cat peeking through jasmine

Published on March 10, 2021

I Can’t Fail

They say that each project we undertake has an energy, a soul of its own.  A bit like marriage.  There is me, there is you, and there is Us.   As I start on this journey, this new […]

Creativity
Garden Journal
Moments of Mindfulness
Nature

Published on February 26, 2021

Love Song to Body

I haven’t washed my hair in weeks, haven’t brushed my teeth in days, feeling that film under my tongue. I smell my armpits when I raise my arms.  And I like it. The animal in me […]

Creativity
Moments of Mindfulness
Musings
Revelations

Published on September 07, 2020

We Are Enough

We are the blending in. The eyes lowered shut and the shoulders bent in and our curves covered over. We blend in small, we blend in quiet, we blend in soft, we blend in good.   […]

Creativity
Moments of Mindfulness
Musings
Revelations