“Whatever the present moment contains,Accept it as if you had chosen it…Make it your friend and ally,Not your enemy.” It is funny that I try to write these blogs like I know it all. I don’t. When I was regularly writing for “physicians living intentionally”, people used to say that I am wise beyond my age. I am not. Most specifically, it all came down tumbling down when a series of political events unfolded. I was in the depth of…
“Be good to yourself‘Cause nobody elseHas the power to make you happy.” Good Monday morning friends, I have been thinking, do you have insecurities? About how you look, what you sound like, what your vocation is, how your children behave, or how you show up in this world? As a woman who has just moved into her fifties, I have a lot to look back on. I remember when I went to Mexico for the first time on a spring…
I have a little question for you: “Who is it, or what is it that you most appreciate in life?” Just think of that question. You don’t have to answer it immediately. Sort of let it simmer. You all know that I have a podcast that I talk about living an intentional life and living your best possible life now. You also know that I am a palliative care physician. My medical discipline is one that has a nurse, a…
Happy Wednesday morning my friends, “You don’t knowthis new me,I put backmy pieces,Differently.” I cannot quote who this is from. It was on a card a good friend sent me. I love receiving cards like the old times. I have been thinking quite a bit about this. If you don’t like who you have become, you can become who you have always wanted to be. You are not a painted wall. You are a chameleon. If you could do whatever…
Happy Monday morning my friends, “You have no idea how hard I’ve lookedFor a gift to bring You.Nothing seemed right.What’s the point of bringing gold toThe gold mine, or water to the ocean.Everything I came up with was likeTaking spices to the Orient.It’s no good giving my heart and mySoul because you already have these.So I’ve bought you a mirror.Look at yourself and remember me.” -Rumi I had the greatest weekend. It was my daughter’s 14th birthday. Birthdays are big…
“The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and to be stretched large by them. How much sorrow can I hold? That’s how much gratitude I can give. If I carry only grief, I’ll bend toward cynicism and despair. If I have only gratitude, I’ll become saccharine and won’t develop much compassion for other people’s suffering. Grief keeps the heart fluid and soft, which helps make compassion possible.” -Francis Ward…
“Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that’s the ego in you.” -Eckhart Tolle We live up on a hill here in Honolulu. What is absolutely beautiful about it is that we have breathtaking views of the ocean. What is not so nice is that if you want to go out for a little 30 minute walk, it’s never leisurely. Well, it’s leisurely in one direction and a punishment the other way. The slope of our hill is quite…