I’m feeling especially motivated to lean into the season of Lent this year. For those unfamiliar, it is a time consisting of 40 days and 6 Sundays leading up to the celebration of Easter. I’ve only been doing the bare minimum in terms of observing it the past few years, and I want to changeContinue reading “Go Ahead and Give Up Chocolate for Lent”
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Learning How to Do Nothing
When I chose Center as my word for this year, I knew that I wanted to incorporate a daily meditation practice into whatever else I might end up doing while exploring this word. I’ve had intentions to do this with other words in the recent past, but this time doing so seemed more essential thanContinue reading “Learning How to Do Nothing”
With Boredom Comes Opportunity
The week between Christmas and New Year’s, aka “Dead Week,” is one of my favorites of the year. It’s an automatic vacation week for me, but even when it wasn’t, I still loved the unstructured, liminal feel of it. There’s little, if anything to do, and I relish that since there’s usually so much toContinue reading “With Boredom Comes Opportunity”
Jeffrey A. Nelson 