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Walking with Stella Yesterday, out on the bike path, there was a new slant of light. A spring slant. It was still blowing in the 20s in my face, but there was a definite shift in the angle of the...

https://inspirationlocation.com/2019/03/13/reading-digital-minimalism/

One of the things on my "Things I Love" list are movies that end with reconciliations after long estrangements. I feel like I am living one of those movies now. I have been holding a grudge towar...

https://inspirationlocation.com/2015/06/08/reconciliation-after-a-long-estrangement/

One of the things I love most about G's dad, Owen, is his love of reading. He always has a book going and when he is not out fishing, or fixing something in our house, or making a run to the dump...

https://inspirationlocation.com/2015/05/16/what-are-you-reading-these-days/

Today it snowed. Two inches of heavy wet snow on this astronomical “first day of spring.” I got up, made coffee and raisin toast, filled the bird feeders, then headed up to my cozy lair, turn...

https://inspirationlocation.com/2015/03/20/the-first-day-of-spring/

This morning during my meditation, I was forced to confront the fact that my project has slowed down. (Who am I kidding? It has come to a halt. Not a screeching halt. Just a quiet, rubbery thud o...

https://inspirationlocation.com/2015/03/08/4-goals-for-the-next-12-weeks/

This year I set a goal to read a book a month, which seems pretty wimpy considering that I used to read a book a week in my college and grad school years. But the thing about reading now, as oppo...

https://inspirationlocation.com/2013/03/20/a-book-snob-finds-love-on-the-bestseller-list/

Even though I get melancholy when the season changes from summer to fall, and even more so when it changes from fall to winter, I have to admit that I really do love the return to interiority. I ...

https://inspirationlocation.com/2012/10/12/the-return-to-interiority/

So just in time for Spring Break, I am battling some kind of upper respiratory thing. (greaaaat..) Nothing like a garbage-y cough and a woozey head to start the weekend. My first day of Facebook-...

https://inspirationlocation.com/2012/03/10/sitting-on-the-couch-reading/

The other day one of my yoga students handed me this book: He opened it to the back and had me read this: (from the Appendix) Harry's Rules 1.Exercise six days a week for the rest of your life. 2...

https://inspirationlocation.com/2011/10/03/what-i-am-reading-now-younger-next-year/

So. I would like to start today's post by noting that I feel awake and alert even though I am not fully rested.  Because even though I got to bed at a reasonable hour (9:15) I wound up reading u...

https://inspirationlocation.com/2011/06/23/youre-the-one/