...A Fragment of Life's Heart...

This past weekend started on Thursday afternoon and ended late Sunday night for me.  It was one of those long weekends that you hoped would be relaxing and yet somehow it felt busier than being home without the familiarity & comfort of home.  The funny thing about it was that I enjoyed most of it. I would've liked more rest, more beach, a bigger bed, and less activity, but I know I got what I needed.  I had the opportunity to try new things, meet new people, unexpectedly see long lost friends, reconnect with family and appreciate what I have and need, like relationships & quiet time. So how are your weekends? your vacations from work & chores?  For most people, they don't know how to rest, relax, let go and enjoy.  I have family and friends who would rather push themselves into exhaustion than sit still and even worse, sit silently alone.  It makes me wonder and want to us, is it louder or scarier inside than out?  I know it can be for...

Another day dawns, the first thought that arrives as I sit down to write is, "Back to the grind" or the grace - depends on how you look at it.   It ALWAYS depends on how you look at it.   If changing my perspective was only as easy as putting on a different pair of glasses THEN the world would be perfect. Right? Doubtful.   We’d all be so worried that someone was going to steal our glasses or that we might break them that we’d be holed up in our homes worse than we are now searching online for a newer better pair of glasses to fix this new paranoia.   Always searching, never satisfied.   The story of most people’s miserable lives, including mine, no exceptions.   Many spiritual teachers and writers say that if you are constantly searching then will never find what you’re looking for because you have basically told the Universe that your faith is in the search, the desperation, the difficulty versus the hope, the happiness, the homecoming.   T...