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I love clean slates, tablas rasas, to begin again. Every morning is such a chance. I wake up and for a moment everything is new and fresh. I begin again. Rosh Hashanah is technically the birthday of the world. It begins the evening of Sept. 11th and ushers in 10 days of reflection, repair and renewal. The whole idea is to clear our personal slates, to ask forgiveness, to forgive, to reestablish our goals for the new year, and to find at-one-ment within. I love celebrating thi

September always seems like a good starting place for a tabla rasa of sorts. Maybe its because school starts up again; the harvest time gives us amazing jewels from the earth; the year is rounding its corner towards January; and the Jewish high holy holidays around this time promise a clean slate. So I am holding on to the kindfulness in my mindfulness practice. And holding on to a few helpful techniques for quieting my mind. 1. One helpful hint while sitting or even during p

You have heard of FOMO, right? Fear of Missing Out is a real thing. I have pivoted to JOMO, Joy of Missing Out. Yep, I heard it from one of the lovely human who regularly attends my Death Cafe about 2 years ago. And it stuck. Now, instead of saying "No", I can say "I am going JOMO on that event/invitation/plan." I love missing out on otherwise wonderful events with joy. It is not that I do not want to attend, its that I have a conflict or have run out of energy or it does not

Someone said to me the other day that the three ages of humans are 'youth, maturity and you-look-great'! I chuckled, nodding. They followed with a joke about an elephant standing in the middle of a room with people all around them saying, 'And I am right there and still no one acknowledges me!' That poor elephant! I never thought of its perspective before. But that is not the point. I used to have an elephant collection because they were my favorite animal. Stuffed animal ele

I finally have something to put on my bucket list! Here it is: Making friends with Time. Having time. Taking time. Enjoying the time I have. I have always had a strained relationship with time. I had to make every second count. I had to do three things at once. There was never enough time so I had to be super fast and uber efficient and super productive. Now I just want to have a friendly relationship with time. I don't want to be too busy. I don't want to multi-task. I don't