Image by Esi Grünhagen from Pixabay Have you noticed how noisy it is? It’s so noisy everywhere. Even in the rural setting I find myself with the population actually dropping, it’s still so loud. But now and then I find it. Floating in a kayak on the Cheshire Reservoir or sitting in the wee hours before sunrise on our sun porch. But even then I find another obstacle to quiet…the thoughts in my head. My own internal noise pollution. And what remedy do I turn to? More noise. I often listen to...

Image by Alicja from Pixabay One morning I sat down to meditate, and when I opened my meditation app, a pop-up asked me “Did you meditate yesterday?” The first time I saw this prompt I was confused. The app has a feature that tracks which days I meditate and even celebrates when I have a streak. So it knows damn well I didn’t meditate yesterday. But then I thought, is it worried I’m cheating on it with other apps? Maybe it thought I was having an affair with Headspace. Finally I figured out...

Image by Placidplace from Pixabay It has become exceptionally easy and alarmingly acceptable to put each other into boxes. “You think this? So you must think that as well?” “That person is against this? Well then obviously they must be for that.” From there the natural next step is to sort each other into “good” and “bad” piles and then call it day. But who do you know (in real life) that is truly that simple? Isn’t there real harm in putting someone in a good or bad pile? The people who...