DAY SIX – OUTDOORS
Find a comfortable place to sit where you can see a tree. It can be a small or large tree and depending on the season and the type of tree. Notice its shape, its various parts from trunk to limbs to branches to leaves if there are any. See the different sizes of each part
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DAY FIVE – INDOOR DETAILS
It was an Anglican Bishop, Frances Atterbury, who said, “It’s attention to detail that makes the difference between average and stunning.” What we see every day may seem ordinary, familiar and even, at times, boring. It is perhaps why we travel to other places to get a different view of something we might regard as
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DAY FOUR – OBSERVING
Today, begin noticing your surroundings in some detail, eyes wide open to shapes, colors, designs and little things. Whether you are inside or out of doors will change the view so let’s start with indoors and notice where and how you are sitting. Secondly, if you look straight ahead what do you see? Now look
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DAY THREE – SETTLING IN
Easing into the new and unfamiliar is not flipping a switch from off to on or out to in. It is getting used to something gradually, a step at a time, little by little, not all at once like jumping into the deep end where we may be over our heads. Becoming comfortable with something
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DAY TWO – SOLITUDE
Alone. By myself. Quiet. These are favorable conditions for exploring the interior life. No distractions, no diversions, no noise and no interruptions. Silence is a welcome change from the ordinary, everyday business of living and working, of being in a family or a community and extracting myself for these brief moments of looking and listening
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A BOLD EXPERIMENT
I have been posting a blog approximately every week and have been doing that many years. Starting today, December 1, 2022, I am going to try and post a blog every day with the theme “A Month’s Journey Inside.” I may or may not be successful but I believe it’s worth giving it a good
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LEARN CHANGE GROW
For years, I used this mantra LEARN CHANGE GROW as a guide for innovative change as I believed it was a simple reminder of a process and a way of making progress both as individuals and as organizations. The goal was evolving into a new and different way of being in the world, something familiar
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THANKSGIVING TO THANKSLIVING
Making a transition from giving thanks to living thanks is a short walk across the bridge. On one side is where we give thanks, say thanks, and show gratitude for that which has been given to us whether material gifts that can be seen and felt, or friendships and love, which we cannot hold in
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THANK YOU!
I am indebted to Whitney Johnson for the idea of writing 30 thank you notes over 30 days to 30 different people. She mentioned it in her “Weekly Wisdom” newsletter of October 27. If my daily practice continues on schedule, I will hit 30 on Thanksgiving weekend. What I have been doing is to identify
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