my one word prompt {6.23}

For lots of One Worders, myself included, June is a time to look back. To take inventory of my word and my practice so far. Ask ’23… What’s resonated? What hasn’t? What’s sticking, half-way through this year? What can I carry into summer? I’ll look back at my One Word posts. Through my Ask ’23...

my one word prompt {5.23}

Mantras. They're meant to promote a sense of calm...boost awareness...generate focus or healing or growth. And they've worked for me in all sorts of ways: in seated and walking meditations. During scary times, out-of-control times. To keep my intentions in check for the holidays. Manage stressful dynamics in too-small spaces. And to fall asleep at...

my one word prompt {2.23}

The last few years, I've anticipated these monthly prompts with nothing but delight. A veritable rubbing-hands-together...What's it gonna be?! The anticipation of what I might do and where I might go with my word has almost always felt joyfully anticipatory. This time, though... I've been dreading this go-round. Okay. Dread might be dramatic. Less eager,...

my one word prompt {december twenty-two}

December. December! I'd say I feel...ready. Ready for my last month with My Word. (Though elements of Engage will stay with me, for sure.) That's some of what I'll do this month, in fact. Sit with this 'capsule' of my word. A cheat sheet of what I did this year...and what will I bring with...

my one word prompt {november twenty-two}

I can't believe it! I did it again. (Well, not again.) (Sort of again.) (More like simultaneously?) Let me back up: In my last post, I told you how I screwed up logistics...at a friend's expense...a couple of weeks ago. Which was bad enough! Listen to what else I did: Lincoln is flying back to...

my one word prompt {october twenty-two}

This little maple leaf caught my eye on a walk a few days ago. (Contrasting colors in nature tend to hijack my attention. Coleus, for example. And lichen against a host.) On Wednesday morning, I left my van at a service station for its NYS state inspection and took a quiet walk while I waited....

my one word prompt {september twenty-two}

At first I thought I'd do my usual, come September -- a 'back to basics' with My One Word. In a building-blocks, back-to-school kind of a way. It's what I had every intention of doing when I sat down to write this prompt; I've been looking forward to it, actually! (In the same way I...

my one word prompt {august twenty-two}

I'm not going to say one. darn. word. about how fast this summer is going for me. But I will give myself a prompt to address it. Hmph! Because...I love the four seasons. I like the smells, difference in weather + light, the food + drinks + sweater weights that go with it. In summer?...

my one word prompt {july twenty-two}

Wow. I blinked. June's gone! I kinda can't believe it. Ready or not, we're halfway through '22. And at this time (well, in June, usually, but July this year), I like to look back at my prompts so far...at my word work to date...and consider -- What do I want to bring into this season?...

my one word prompt {june twenty-two}

"In such ugly times, the only protest is beauty." --singer + songwriter Phil Ochs This quote landed on my ears twice in May, and by the second time I heard my minister say it, I knew I'd bring into June with me (And that was before Buffalo. Before Texas. When it was just all the...