It’s easy to become wrapped up in what is wrong and difficult in our lives, but when we shift our perspective, life gets better.

A simple practice to create greater happiness …

Grief and gratitude go hand in hand. Knowing sorrow aligns your heart with gratitude.

Before we zoom over Thanksgiving on our way to Christmas/New Years/Spring Break/Next Summer, I would like to pause to consider the most basic and greatest of gratitudes: the privilege of being here at all.

The same fire that destroys life and darkens the landscape is also what stimulates the opening and growth of new life.

We all have so much, so many gifts that we open and then casually toss aside in our overabundance of good fortune.

Life is an energy exchange of giving and receiving. When we fail to offer sincere gratitude, we become disconnected and isolated. We lose our sense of place and connection.

Being slowed by loss or pain offers a unique blessing: it replaces all the details and to-do lists with a centered simplicity.