I hope you will enjoy this poem, shared with me by my friend Toni Goodman. Optimism Jane Hirshfield More and more I have come to admire...

There is much to say about the current times, and not being able to find the right words myself, I share here my teacher's. A reflection...

Looking for a poem to read this week in class, and inspired by Jack Kornfield and a story that he told in a video I recently watched...

We had a memorable visit by a wren yesterday. Such an incredible, little, powerful, determined bird, I admired what seemed to be very...

“Ni tanto que queme al santo Ni tanto que no lo alumbre” - Refrán popular In catholic churches, one will see some images and statues of...

Oh do you have time to linger for just a little while out of your busy and very important day for the goldfinches that have gathered in a...

Today Mary Oliver Today I’m flying low and I’m not saying a word I’m letting all the voodoos of ambition sleep. The world goes on as it...

It came as a gift today, I read it before, but hearing it today from a friend, and in the current world circumstances, opened my ears in...

I bumped into this poem, by John O'Donohue, from his book "To Bless the Space Between Us" For Loneliness When the light lessens, Causing...

I created a little Sanctuary in a part of the house I didn't usually visit. I can have tea here, and watch the trees and also birds,...

I have a friend who owns 4 crows. This doesn’t mean that she has them in a cage, or that they live in her house. She has a special...

I spent some time taking photos of our friend the hummingbird, the one that we often see near the terrace. Watching his behavior is...

It has been a while that I want to add this poem to my Blog, only I had never taken a photo of a goldfinch. Yesterday one stayed long...

I recently read a phrase by Pierre Alais, yoga teacher, and student of Shivananda & T.K.V. Desikachar, a phrase that stayed with me:...

Thanks to Toni Goodman, the Poetry Circle fairy, for this beautiful poem: Thank You Ross Gay If you find yourself half naked and barefoot...

Dear ones, There is no moment in life where things are not changing, maybe there is sometimes the illusion that things are steady and...

A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that...

What Can I Do? I am fortunate enough to have a roof over my head, food to eat, even drinkable water from the tap, which is really a...

A dear student who shares her wisdom with the sangha* shared this with us: The Moment by Marie Howe Oh, the coming-out-of-nowhere moment...

On Christmas Day, one of my son’s friends gave me two beautiful candles, nontoxic coconut wax, with a very delicate, almost imperceptible...