The Value in Pain

The Value in Pain

by | Mar 6, 2019 | Thursday Musing

But I do know that there is incredible value in pain and suffering, if you allow yourself to experience it, to cry, to feel sorrow and grief, to hurt. Walk through the fire and you will emerge on the other end, whole and stronger. I promise. You will ultimately find...
We Confuse Certainty for Truth

We Confuse Certainty for Truth

by | Feb 6, 2019 | Thursday Musing

“We go through life seeing reality not as it really is, in its unfathomable depths of complexity and contradiction, but as we hope or fear or expect it to be. Too often, we confuse certainty for truth and the strength of our beliefs for the strength of the evidence....
To Let Things Be

To Let Things Be

by | Jan 10, 2019 | Thursday Musing

Get rid of all that is unnecessary. Wabi-sabi means treading lightly on the planet and knowing how to appreciate whatever is encountered, no matter how trifling, whenever it is encountered. In other words, wabi-sabi tells us to stop our preoccupation with...
Keeping Things Whole

Keeping Things Whole

by | Nov 28, 2018 | Thursday Musing

In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing. When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body’s been. We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole. -Mark...
The Reality of Grief

The Reality of Grief

by | Nov 14, 2018 | Thursday Musing

The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor...