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Learning to be Here is a place for being in mindfulness practice together, in a world of wonder and fracture. I share poems, essays, guided meditations, and creative practices for unfurling into ourselves. I also include updates about retreats, practice groups, classes, and working with me one-on-one.
What becomes possible when we break open?
What if our bodies already know how to heal?
What if meaning isn’t made, but arrives?
And what if love, or faith, isn’t earned but something we are?
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Recent Installments
After all this time. Biometrics, the second arrow, and excuses to journal.
Strangers on my front porch? The stories we tell ourselves about the unfamiliar.
What do you do when all you feel is rage? Lovingkindness practice.
AI’s discernment problem. And what I really want Claude to tell me.
Gentle almost beyond reason. Bears in their country.
Nervous system reset. A walk alone in the woods.
Without instructions. We don’t have to wait to be good.
The transmission. What if love is intrinsic?
Joy in the Midst. On joy and its unlikely companions.
Mud season. Notes on fear from a Vermont dirt road.
Call and response. And burning through oracles.
Spiritual practices, a list. On mindfulness in the middle of life.