Greed is the future? I’m GenX, and finding big financial success was all the rage when I was at university. Money was on almost everyone’s mind. The commerce faculties were flourishing in the nineties – people had taken all the wrong lessons from the movie, Wall Street – and many of the people I interacted with on campus had big plans to make big bucks. … Continue reading I Don’t Look Ahead – an off-the-cuff joint.
Are you result or process driven? Have you given it some thought? It was recently on my mind. We like to do puzzles. We’re puzzlers. We stick to smallish ones, five hundred to seven hundred and fifty pieces that we can complete in an evening. I don’t want the stress of an unfinished puzzle torturing me, and my son is the same way. Plus, the … Continue reading Are you result or process driven?
If I am when I think, am I not when I don’t? That hasn’t been my experience. When I’m meditating, when I’m not thinking in favour of simply being, that’s when I feel most “me”. Absenting thoughts in favour of pure existence is my favourite kind of meditation. It’s also the one I struggle with most; my monkey brain loves to follow every random, … Continue reading Not thinking.
I’ve been having trouble meditating of late. I have a serious case of monkey brain and can’t seem to stop following trains of thought. The state of the world. Climate change. Politics. My kids. My parents. The oft-annoying cat. My depression. My self-harm. Last week’s episode of Grey’s Anatomy. Did I remember to add bleach to the grocery list? My thoughts bounce like balls in my head… Continue reading Unclench your hands.
From Famine to Feast. 