“Full of hope and dreams coming true, may this be a blessed day. Loving kindness and unconditional love filling every heart, may this be a blessed day. Opportunities galore with miracles great and small, may this be a blessed day. Beauty abounds throughout this glorious mother earth; may this be a blessed day. Peace and friendship among all sentient beings here and throughout the cosmos, may this be a blessed day. May all you yearn and strive...

“Moving too fast may trip you up. Spilling your coffee, forgetting your phone, distracted from birdsong or a beautiful sunset, are little things that can be easily corrected. However, if speed is a constant in your life, big things that cannot be reversed may cause you regret. A hasty email full of criticism, a downstairs tumble necessitating a hospital visit, an unfortunate consequence due to perceived judgment or unfounded hearsay. Wait, be...

“Turn on the light as you get up. Open your blinds – your curtains – to see what the day looks like. Is there plenty of sunshine yet? Or maybe it’s cloudy and you hope it’ll clear up soon so that you can be in the light. Outside you seek the sunny side of the street where the warmth has already dispelled the morning’s coolness. At the coffee shop, you put your computer on the table where the lighting is good. Turning it on, you see the...

“Remember the game where each participant sitting in a circle would pass on what they heard from the person sitting beside them? The sentence was whispered from one “ear to another” until it made its way to the last person in the circle. Everyone always had a good laugh comparing what was the original sentence to what it had morphed into during its circuitous journey. You may hear accurately or even see clearly, yet the lens of your unique...

“Remember the times when you were trying to find your way? In a new high school that had so many hallways, you didn’t know which one to take? A parking garage with umpteen levels: you were on seven but to get to it took you up and down several times; meeting your friend in front of a coffee shop while visiting them – no cell phone to locate them; the memory of being at a train station wishing you could jump the tracks to get to the right...