If there was one thing in your life that you could choose to do well, what would it be?
What is the most important job you have to accomplish?
How do you measure success for yourself?
Is this the first time you’ve asked these questions?

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If there was one thing in your life that you could choose to do well, what would it be?
What is the most important job you have to accomplish?
How do you measure success for yourself?
Is this the first time you’ve asked these questions?
I spent a few hours scrubbing our new house free of the leftovers from its former tenants in preparation for moving in. Now I am very tired
Strangely and surprisingly, I’ve always found cleaning to be a very spiritual activity. I think it is because of some kind of psychological projection: as I’m removing the muck and dirt from walls and floors and appliances, it almost feels like I’m doing the same for my mind and spirit at the same time. Does anyone else have this experience?
If you know me at all, you’ll be wondering why I don’t make use of this ‘spiritual exercise’ more often…
A meditation on seasonal changes, as I prepare for a new house and my second child to be born:
Summer and winter are times of stability; places of rest.
Autumn and spring are times of change, transition and instability.
Which is more real?
Does the transition exist to bring us to the next point of rest?
Or does the rest exist to help us prepare for the next transition?
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