Sometimes it can be difficult to know how to find the space – in our day, in our mind, in our heart – to be quiet, to be mindful.  Last week’s #Mindfulness Mondays poem by Rumi suggested that we join...

When I think of a mindfulness practice or setting, I picture finding a quiet space to escape from the world and take some time to slow down and regroup. So I was surprised how the opening lines from Rumi’s “A...

This week’s poem for #Mindfulness Mondays is not actually a poem, it’s an excerpt from Marianne Williamson’s “A Return to Love.”  Rachel Willis selected it for her reflection in Teaching with Heart: Poetry that Speaks to the Courage to Teach....

I used to be Alex, but now I am Ms. G — Alexandra Glinsbockel Identity. A simple word – 8 letters, 4 syllables. Yet it may well be one of the most elusive constructs in the world. Defined by the...

Congratulations to DeAnn Akins for winning Greg John’s Notes from the Playground and to Jan Meyer for winning Phyllis Cole-Dai and Ruby R. Wilson’s Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems. Our next Book Giveaway is The Courage Way:...

I can think of no better poem for launching Mindfulness Mondays than “On How to Pick and Eat Poems” by Phyllis Cole-Dai. It serves as a preface poem to the collection in Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems...