"A brood of little ladybugs is wintering with me, one has just wandered across the paper—take it for a good omen!" Rainer Maria Rilke I have seen several ladybugs recently. We are in the throes of winter and they don’t usually make themselves ...

Though it is the hardest going, the way is clear. - Mark Nepo The Value In Swimming Up Stream Finding Your Edge I was first introduced to the idea of my edge in yoga. One of my first yoga teachers would guide us in a pose and instruct us to...

"Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayer utters itself."From Carol Ann Duffy's "Prayer"...

Where there was something and suddenly isn’t,   an absence shouts, celebrates, leaves a space.   I begin again with the smallest numbers.From Naomi Shihab Nye's "Burning the Old Year"...