We hope that you are enjoying our mini-retreats from Torri Shafer’s “Romancing the Soul”. Here’s our latest selection, exploring seeing a bigger picture while walking and observing meditatively. Enjoy! Every morning when walk my dog down by the river, I encounter...
The other night, a friend invited me to go out to the prairie and watch the night sky. This is not something that I do regularly; in fact, I cannot remember the last time that I cast more than a passing glance upward after dark. I am usually staring straight ahead...
Every time one looks up at the sky, they can witness a new masterpiece on a massive scale that will never be repeated. Yet clouds are so ubiquitous that, for the most part, their beauty is disregarded. Gavin Pretor-Pinney, founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society,...
Every morning, I walk around Lake Minnequa. It is in one of the bleakest neighborhoods in the city. Bordering it like a fortress wall are trailer courts and by-the-hour motels, mechanic shops and liquor stores. But the lake itself is pristine, a secret garden guarded...
When I think of the quintessential summer day, I think back to my childhood. Hot days were spent in the front yard. Nowadays, I feel more comfortable in the privacy of the back patio, but back then I was not self-conscious about playing where everybody could see me....
We continue our series of self-care mini-retreats from Torri Shafer’s “Romancing the Soul” with a post about slowing down to savor life and some tangible practices to help you do just that. Remember the merry-go-rounds? They looked so fun with the other kids laughing...
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