I needed this! I’m overwhelmed these days with the pressures of work. I was cleaning out my personal email this afternoon and stumbled upon the latest edition of David Allen’s Productive Living Newsletter. It pointed to a series of quick videos offering very helpful and grounding advice under the title Two-Minute Tips for Turbulent Times. Yesterday I talked about meditation as a way of Finding Peace … Continue reading Two-Minute Tips for Turbulent Times

These are hard times. As the COVID crisis enters its third month, millions are struggling with difficult feelings arising from cabin fever, loneliness (or overcrowding!), unemployment, debt, and more. Overshadowing everything is an eerie anxiety, a persistent nagging uncertainty over our basic survival. Will I get sick? Will I die? Will a loved one? On some level we’ve all recognized our mortality, but this is … Continue reading Finding Peace in Difficult Times

This is my third post in a series titled Music: Refuge, Solace & Inspiration where I’ve assembled some of the music people worldwide are creating and uploading while in isolation and quarantine. Among the most remarkable examples is a stunning father & daughter duo from Utah, Mat and Savanna Shaw. Savanna is 15 years old. They’ve only be at it about a month and have become … Continue reading Music: Refuge, Solace & Inspiration 3

On Monday I posted how people are producing music online to help lift their spirits and those around them. As difficult and scary as this crisis is, there’s beauty too. In so many ways, people are rising to their best selves.  Music is one way. It gives me hope, both here in the moment and later after the situation eases. “When I hear music, I … Continue reading Music: Refuge, Solace & Inspiration 2

YouTube is filled with incredible music inspired by the crisis we’re all enduring together, most of it created in lockdown and quarantine. A lot of the music is funny — audio memes — and some of it is poignant. All of it is uplifting! “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” ― Maya … Continue reading Music: Refuge, Solace & Inspiration

The title of this post is a quote that says it all: “See the light in each other. Be the light for each other.” It’s not known who said it. But if ever there was a time when we’ve needed to have each others’ back, this is it. “Sometimes all a person wants is an empathetic ear; all he or she needs is to talk … Continue reading “See the light in each other. Be the light for each other.”

A lot of people these days are struggling in a lot of ways. Fear and worry top the list in “these uncertain times,” as the pandemic is often called now. With so many affected in so many different ways, and to different degrees, the feelings experienced cover the spectrum. There’s a unique aspect to this experience — well, one of many! — and that’s the … Continue reading “Right in the Darkness is Profound Light”

So… How are ya? Scared? Anxious? Stressed? Overwhelmed? Bored? Lonely? Restless? Or are ya chillin’, getting some needed rest and enjoying binge-watching Netflix? I hope it’s the latter. These are difficult and scary times for most people, to be sure. It’s not going to end on Easter, of course, but we also can’t say exactly when it will! Know one knows. This could go on … Continue reading Mind, Body & Soul