Meditation

Autism Bink Family Meditation Parenting Spirituality Writing

The Meaning of Compassion

The Kuan Yin She keeps watch in the warm corner of my bedroom, her bearing almost more regal for the rivers of cracks and generous chips that mark her faded turquoise. Her right hand, the…

MelindaNovember 5, 2018

Bink Family Meditation Spirituality Writing

Fat on Silence

I need to write it down. I should do this before true memory fades and is replaced, as it so often is, by a recall that looks like The way I wanted it to…

MelindaSeptember 18, 2018

Art Bink Family Parenting Spirituality Writing

SHE and DOE

It was a few years ago that I found myself meandering in a quaint little town in western Massachusetts, about two hours east of home. I saw the…

MelindaSeptember 8, 2018

Art Cairns Meditation Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

The art that blesses my listening hands

Making Art with Beach Stones My home hums with them–— the smooth and rough, pale and dark, striped, speckled, some with lines, or bits of mica mesmerizing the…

MelindaAugust 27, 2018

Bink Meditation Parenting Spirituality Writing Yoga

NOT ZEN, BUT NOW

Being present is easy when the blue sky moment is trimmed with green grass, when temperate breezes blow your hair back gently from your bright, clean face. You can hop off the worry train quickly…

MelindaJune 6, 2018

Meditation Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing Yoga

Of Two Minds, or Many

What if there's no such thing as right side up? Of Two Minds, or Many When Left Brain speaks, she is right on about doing it right or don’t do it at all, do…

MelindaJuly 12, 2017

Autism Bink Meditation Parenting Yoga Yogabilities™

Yogabilities™: Peace as a civil right

Doesn't everyone deserve to be peaceful? When I tell people that one of my occupations is teaching Yoga, there are some common responses. Oh, I love Yoga! I take it at the gym/the cool…

MelindaJune 14, 2017

Meditation Spirituality Yoga

Why Yoga Matters Off the Mat

As I prepare to return to teaching classes next month, I’ve been musing and mulling over new ways to translate the essence of the great big practice that is Yoga. My desire, when I teach,…

MelindaAugust 2, 2016

Meditation Spirituality Yoga

The Sit When I am asked how to meditate There are no words the color of presence No shapes that look like attention I can only tell you what my senses tell me Or how…

MelindaMay 15, 2016

Meditation Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing Yoga

ON SILENCE

Absence of noise It’s not that I enter into this thing called silence. I don't let it in or go out to find it. Silence is my natural state. It’s the vast patience of the…

MelindaApril 28, 2016