Category: Meditations

Somewhere, visible but not reachable, is the city of your dreams: the place where everything is new, but feels entirely like home, the place where possibilities settle in and become the every day.

What happens in your dream city?

“The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

What opportunity are you waiting for?

So much of pregnancy is waiting—to confirm the pregnancy is real, to feel the baby move, to have this increasingly cumbersome being finally on the outside. Of course, once the baby is born the list of things you wait for merely shifts.

What are you waiting and hoping for in the life of a family member?

Your friend promised to arrive by 3:00. It is now 3:17. You are bored. Or anxious. Or annoyed. Which are all simply states within your mind, and will no doubt change as soon as your friend arrives, telling the story of the world outside your head.

How do you respond when someone is late?

Sometimes important things drop in on us out of the blue, a complete and utter surprise. But more often we spend our time scanning the horizon, waiting for that much-anticipated (or dreaded) thing to arrive.

What are you scanning the horizon for?