I open my hotel-room door and a seven-year-old girl in a bright dress smiles at me as she passes by. She is carrying a white rose and leading a wedding party. I had just opened my heart more to my writing before leaving my room. Later, at Barnes and Noble in the poetry section I […]
Softening the Heart
Chogyam Trungpa, a Tibetan Buddhist teacher, wrote about tenderizing the heart. “Trungpa taught the Buddhist practice of bodhicitta, or awakened heart. His own term for awakened heart was ‘the genuine heart of sadness,’ which he explained as a natural and beautiful condition, the result of staying open to the full experience of life” (The Seeker’s […]
Here Comes the Sun
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links (at no cost to you). “Here Comes the Sun – Abbey Road” was written by George Harrison in the spring of 1969 and appeared on the Beatles’ Abbey Road album. Background “. . . ‘Here Comes the Sun’ was an expression of delight at bring able to slip away […]