As the days have grown shorter and the season has darkened, I’ve been reading some Advent reflections by author and Franciscan priest Richard Rohr in his book Preparing for Christmas: Daily Meditations for Advent. In one reflection, Rohr explores a paradox of modern life: despite an abundance of so-called “time-saving devices,” we often feel like […]
Mindfulness: A Personal Documentary of Now
In high school, I had a dream—to become a documentary filmmaker, exploring people’s stories. And I even started down that path, studying film and radio and TV broadcasting in my early college days. But life took me down a different path, and I discovered that my passion for stories didn’t fade—it simply transformed. Though I […]
Watering Seeds
All around, green is overtaking brown as the dominant color of the landscape, revealing what survived the winter. Multiple colors of wildflowers emerge through the soil and stand out against the greening ground. And new plants are surfacing from seeds that received enough water and nutrients over the past season. For those new plants seen […]
The Power of Inner Compassion
I’m often struck by how some very compassionate-seeming people are so not compassionate with themselves. Their inner dialogue toward themselves can be harsh and absolutely contradictory to how they would speak to others. Sometimes this inner dialogue may come from some other time and place, perhaps reflecting how one was spoken to as a younger […]