When I was selected to teach a Mindful photography class at San Francisco General Hospital's Mental Rehabilitation Center I was both excited and intrigued. The students were at all different levels of rehabilitation. Some were right off the streets of being homeless and enduring all kinds of addictions. I held…
I don't believe kindness can be taught. It's like trust - a feeling that you know it's okay. Kindness instills trust perhaps.
“Nothing suffocates the life force more thoroughly than trying to control what is happening.”
Today it’s raining. It’s like a protective shield to me – I huddle indoors as I write these words. I look out beyond palm trees in the distance. It's the love month. There are reminders everywhere. My heart seems to come alive in a myriad of ways. This year, however, it’s…
Such a time these days have become for me. Less than a week before a major election and I find myself in a state of suspension. I look up on my walk and immediately raise my camera to capture the goblins/ghosts pictured above almost taunting me - reminding me of…
I've been weeping all week. Quietly. And then Friday I watched her funeral and I saw the female lawmakers lining the steps of the Capitol building as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's casket departed after lying in state. That's when I teared up - seeing all those women standing tall. I…
Ironic, or is it - that today is 9/11 - a day which rocked the world into a huge state of emergency. Here in California - we are sheltered inside - pretty much sequestered to our homes. The reason - from off -the-charts basically bad air quality due to wildfires…
I recently read this sentence from a newsletter I receive, called DailyOm. Bad days contribute to the person we become. How we choose to step into that day is what becomes the challenge. Do we sink further down? Do we let those demons of down spiral us further into the…
