Hi! It’s been awhile since I’ve found a voice to offer here. I notice that when I’m experiencing deep and rapid change in my life, writing here can feel confusing. The sense is something like, I’m not who I was when I last wrote here… and how do I jump in with who I am […]
Author Archives: ashley
Some People Find Angry Expressions Rewarding
Interesting research: “It’s kind of striking that an angry facial expression is consciously valued as a very negative signal by almost everyone, yet at a non-conscious level can be like a tasty morsel that some people will vigorously work for,” study co-author Oliver Schultheiss, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, said […]
Protected Time, Productive Time, Flow & Schedules
I had a little bit of a melt down in the car the other day. It was a highly scheduled day from one appointment to another. Suddenly a wave of sadness and anger swept through me (fortunately I wasn’t driving). What are we doing to ourselves? As a culture, why are we allowing ourselves to […]
Isn’t That Interesting
A very helpful reminder for me this morning: I remembered the other day that part of Zen practice is “taking the step back.” Being very human I have negative, unskilful reactions to things that other people do and say. The unskillful way to have such a reaction is to go with it and be caught […]
Community
Community.Somewhere, there are peopleto whom we can speak with passionwithout having the words catch in our throats.Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us,eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with uswhenever we come into our own power.Community means strength that joins our strengthto do the work that needs to […]
Freeing Ourselves
“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us restricting us to our own […]
A Funny Conversation
I’m having lunch with two 3rd-grade girls. One farts. The other looks at me and then the other girl and says, “Oh my gosh! I wouldbe so embarrassed to fart in front of someone like that. Wouldn’t you, Ashley?” I smile and make a casual, this-is-life kind of face and say, “Farting is something that […]