“But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.” – Benjamin Diraeli What is it that makes up the minutes, hours, days, and weeks of our lives? Is it the ordinary or extraordinary moments that count? Or is it neither the ordinary…
A few weeks ago I stumbled upon a fascinating blog post by Betsy at Zen Mama that highlighted some of the best Taoist quotes from The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. I had been meaning to read The Tao of Pooh for some time now, and reading this post renewed…
“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” — Saint Augustine I was recently granted an awesome opportunity to travel to South Korea for five days. After a fair amount of hemming and hawing about whether I could go and should go, I…
“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.” ― Gustave Flaubert I have been writing on this blog for two months now and amount of things that I have learned have been monumental. There have been incredible highs like when a post is well-received or I…
I am a do-er, a go-getter, a self-starter. I make to-do lists. I complete the tasks on the list. I cross them off the list. I make a new list. Inactivity makes me uncomfortable and, as a stay-at-home mom, there is no shortage of chores to be done – toys…
“You cannot open a book without learning something.” — Confucius Is there anything more powerful than a book? What else has the power to educate, spread the imagination, foster fantasies, and inspire change? What else can detach your feet from this earthly world and transport you to another alternate universe? …