“Mindfulness is about stepping outside yourself, looking at yourself, and knowing that it’s going to be okay.
So it may be Buddhism, but maybe Buddhists just discovered something that mothers have known all along.”
Dr. Jeffrey Smith
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"I will always hold you close,
But I will learn to let you go.
I promise I’ll do better."
Sleeping at Last
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a game we played
so many times
I finally taught my sons,
not knowing what it was,
until too late, I’d done.
~ Patrick Phillips
Read More“What both science and at least some philosophical and even religious traditions tell us is that the world is impermanent. Nothing in it stays the same. We don't stay the same. Our bodies don't stay the same. The people that we love and the things that we love don't stay the same. That's just the truth of the matter, that there's this constant impermanence, this constant flux. And some philosophers have argued over the years that we should just embrace that. We would be freer if we didn't try to hold that flux for a moment.”
Alison Gopnik
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"Our voices echo in the spray
and steam of this room where once,
long ago, he knelt at the tub’s edge
to pour cups of bathwater over my head."
There is great comfort
in losing a child
to her own adult life,
naturally,
and yet —
a little girl is still gone
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"Who would you be without this story that your mother should love you? You’d be you, without all the efforting. Without the mask, the façade. It feels like freedom to me."
~ Byron Katie
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