A little less trying…

I haven’t been feeling well. Also, I started a new job as a 6th grade teacher – it’s challenging. I feel my days are getting chaotic, that they are speeding by with little time to simply sit and be. I’ve decided to go back to my mediation practice. Nothing fancy – I used to formally sit at a meditation

The Overculture

Hello. It’s been awhile! I started this little blog during the pandemic, as a little project to give to myself to keep busy and feel creative. I was reading a lot of spiritual and self help books and I’d often take a passage that resonated with me and use it as a starting point for

Crossing the threshold

This post is about carrying too much.  Is there a burden you are not able to put down?  In ‘The Book of Awakening’ Mark Nepo tells the story of a friend who was going to paint a room and he had a gallon of paint in each hand, a drop cloth under his arm and a brush

Blessing the messiness of life

I’ve been reading the book ‘Braiding Sweetgrass – Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants’ by Robin Wall Kimmerer.  She is a trained botanist, but also a member of the Potawatomi Nation of indigenous people.  So her book is a blending of the two kinds of knowledge.  She is also a mother and her book touches

A new manifestation

I have been reading Zen scholar Thich Nhat Hanh’s views on continuation after death.  His mother had died and he mourned her but then he had a dream of her and his thoughts changed.  “The sense that my mother was still with me was very clear….Every time my feet touched the earth, I knew my mother was

Listening to the spirit

I have a habit born from being an only child of wanting to be by myself a lot.  This was compounded by having a single mother who didn’t have very good boundaries and made me the center of her life.  So I have this sense of being suffocated by her even to this day – years after