Category: Meditations

The tree is gone, and hardly anything remains of even its stump. But the green moss has grown through the winter, and the tiniest of leaves are nourished by what the tree has left behind.

What is the smallest piece of hope that you carry?

Facing the challenges of life requires courage and persistence and skill. But sometimes the best strategy is just to give it a rest for a while and wait for things to pass.

What is your favorite way to procrastinate or relax?

Scientists are coming to believe that our universe—the sum total of everything—is only one of many universes. Possibility, it seems, is not just infinite, but a multitude of infinities.

Within the infinities of possibilities, what good thing have you chosen today?

We call something a Band-Aid solution when it just covers up the problem without really fixing the whole of what is wrong. But a surprising number of things can heal on their own given a little protection and some time.

When has something healed for you by simply letting time pass?

“Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.”
–Carl Sandburg

What joy are you reaching toward?