by Katy | Nov 16, 2018 | food, mindfulness, practices, self-care
Tea after water when I first awake. Tea as a meditation. Tea on a walk through the neighborhood. Tea while I work. Tea in the afternoon with a creativity break. Tea shared with friends. Tea in the evening before bed. I wrote this post on the airplane on my way to...
by Katy | Oct 31, 2018 | mindfulness, practices, ritual, seasons & cycles, self-care
What have you inherited? With All Hallow’s Eve, the Day of the Dead, and All Soul’s Day almost here, it’s a good time to consider our ancestors. We have inherited so much that we often forget how indebted we are to those who came before us…...
by Katy | Oct 11, 2018 | body, food, mindfulness, practices, seasons & cycles, self-care
Our bodysouls are always doing their best to move toward their fullest, wholeness in any moment. Even when we get pneumonia unexpectedly, when our bodies have pain we don’t understand, when we feel exhausted… In the Diamond Approach, we call this the...
by Katy | Sep 21, 2018 | awakening, mindfulness, personality, practices, seasons & cycles
Autumn Equinox, Saturday the 22nd at 8:54 pm CT. We are in a time of interim. Between Summer and Fall. Summer’s waning light. Fall’s bright, crisp color not yet arriving. You are in this time of interim where everything seems withheld.* I am...
by Katy | Aug 24, 2018 | mindfulness, practices
I’m thinking of all the ways we scribe the sacred into our lives.* Surely, when I write prayers into my dedicated prayer notebook, praying them as I do, I am scribing the sacred. And when I lie down on the floor to listen, move around, and rise back up in my...
by Katy | Aug 2, 2018 | awakening, body, food, mindfulness, self-care, song
“…in the muck, in the scum of things, there always, something sings.” ~ Michelle Isaac from her song Something Sings I spent July 15th – 20th in the hospital in Ithaca, New York. A monthlong on-again, off-again headcold was brewing into...
