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Another good book by Pema Chodron #theplacesthatscareyou This one was all about confronting fears in difficult times. How? With inquiry, kindness, compassion, love, joyfulness, blamelessness, forgiveness, and having the courage to stay present even in the places that scare you. “Confess your hidden faults. Approach what you find repulsive. Help those you think you cannot help. Anything you are attached to, let it go. Go to the places that scare you.” —Advice from her teacher to the Tibetan Yogini Machik Labdron And another good one on joy: “This is the path we take in cultivating joy: learning not armor our basic goodness, learning to appreciate what we have. Most of the time we don’t do this. Rather than appreciate where we are, we continually struggle and nurture our dissatisfaction. It’s like trying to get the flowers to grow by pouring cement in the garden.” —Pema Chodron #amreading #booksofinstagram #greatbooks #loveserveheal2018 #goodstuff #love #joy #peace #wisdom #booklife #writersofinstagram
All spiffed up for his first solo as a member of the WH Jazz Lab! 🎹🎼 #jazzpiano #jazz #wh #colmpaints #cantwait
“Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we are going to be more cheerful in the future, it’s because of our aspiration and exertion to be cheerful in the present. What we do accumulates, the future is the result of what we do right now.” —Pema Chodron #whenthingsfallapart #beherenow #letthem #letgo #groundlessness #yogischoice #yoga #loveserveheal2018 Thank you, @simplypoweryoga_central for this book pick! #beautiful #amreading #bookstagram
Ms. Mary take my picture reading. Ms. Mary, Ms. Mary watch me read. Ms. Mary, Ms. Mary, Ms. Mary read it again. Music to my ears! #read #readtokids #reading #saturdayhoops
#shutterfly hitting me hard with memories today! Seven years goes by in a blink! My girl is in college and my baby is at WH now. I miss this coat too that tragically met its demise in the great exploding-NyQuil-in-the-car-incident during the Christmas road trip the following year. On that night though I remember wanting to savor every moment because I didn’t think life could get any better. I am glad I did. But that gratitude never stopped and every day I find myself saying the same thing: It doesn’t get any better than this. Family, friends, books, love, life, heaven. It is all #proofofheaven #heavenisastateofmind #goodvibes #amwriting #fbf #loveserveheal #nonotthatproofofheaven #mybookcameoutfirst #amwriting #bookstagram
Sprinkles the tutor, keeping Colm company while he studies.
Up and out way past our bedtime and still awake! And so is Margaret Atwood! She after-partied at the Palm Court like the boss she is!
Tonight was perfect! Margaret Atwood was as brilliant and entertaining as I imagined she’d be. Curtis Sittenfeld did a superb job “in conversation” with her and I had the chance to meet her! Thank you to @themercantilelib for an outstanding Cincinnati evening! #amreading #amwriting #handmaidstale #margaretatwood
All dressed up for a night celebrating books, authors, great people and the wonderful @themercantilelib ! And I can’t wait to see the incomparable Margaret Atwood. And tonight is extra special: This will be Greg’s first time joining me. (And yes this dress has pockets! Love! And I think Greg looks amazing in a suit and bow tie!)

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