Do you have a nervous habit? I did. I do. But they’ve morphed over the years. From my childhood until I was married, I used to rock myself to sleep by shaking my foot back and forth. [As you might imagine, this did not go over well with Dan, my husband, and I had to […]
How We Interpret Life
Last weekend, when I was in AL, I read Pema Chödrön’s book When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times. Chödrön is an American Buddhist nun and a resident teacher at Gampo Abbey, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, the first Tibetan monastery in North America established for Westerners. I wanted to share a personal (astonishing) discovery. […]