Image credit: Photo by Nena B. on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons A few months ago, Mark and I took the kids to a "sensory friendly" movie showing. Autistic individuals, and others with sensory processing difficulties, can find a typical movie going experience overwhelming. Movies are loud. Theaters are dark and often crowded. The screen [...]
Posts under ‘spirituality’
Prayer
Image credit: Photo by the italian Jonathan on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons A few days ago, a columnist I generally like wrote a satirical piece on sex addiction rehab (one I won't link to here, due to its triggering nature). He's a liberal columnist, so the comments were populated with lots of LOLs and [...]
Zen and the Art of Perfectionism
Image credit: Photo by h.koppdelaney on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Last week, I was sitting cross-legged on my plump little black cushion on the floor of the Zendo I visit regularly and listening to a talk about cleaning incense burners. And as I listened, the very deep and profound thought that came to me [...]
My Word for 2010
Image credit: Photo by The Gifted Photographer on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Two years ago, I gave up on New Year's resolutions. What do those ever lead to but disappointment anyway? Maybe I keep them, but mostly I don't. And when I don't, I feel like a failure. So, I picked a single word [...]
Just for Today: Throwing Out the To Do List
Image by: catdancing on Flickr Licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 After really struggling last week between my need to sleep and my desire not to sleep, I decided that this week on my day of spirituality I would spend one day throwing out my to do list and letting go of all the things I [...]
The Fall of a Sparrow
Image credit: Photo by Ashley Dinges on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons "I don't want to get up and I don't want to go to school!" my daughter Janie yelled when she heard me chime "Time to get up!" this morning. ("Well, maybe tonight you will go to sleep on time so you won't be [...]
My First Sabbath
Image credit: Photo by Saad.Akhtar Licensed under Creative Commons Last week, oddly inspired by the humorous book The Year of Living Biblically, I decided I wanted to try to add a little Sabbath into my own life. Couldn't I use a day of rest once a week, even if I didn't have an organized religion [...]
Background Noise
Image credit: Photo by fd on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons "The level of sexual imagery in modern life is astounding. I knew intuitively this was true, but when you tune into it, you just can't believe it. I click on the Yahoo! finance page, and there's this blond model in a low-cut dress looking [...]
Sabbath
Image credit: Photo by Vanessa Pike-Russell on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Spiritual inspiration can come from the oddest bits of serendipity. I was at a talk a few months ago by a Zen Buddhist who talked about making each moment sacred, about how we could light incense before doing the dishes and make the [...]
Signposts Along the Way
Image credit: Photo by funkypancake on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Sometimes people ask me (and frankly, sometimes I ask myself) how I went from being very vocal in my rejection of God to someone who now talks about God all the damn time. The short and simple answer is: 12 Step recovery (which is [...]
