Wherever I go today, I bring the weather.
One small thing for todayLearn the name of someone you see often but have never met.
Take a pause: breathe, sit, reflectA Lesson in Impermanence
A rare heart infection sent an abscess to her brain. What Ann Tashi Slater had studied for decades about bardo and impermanence, she was suddenly living.
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What our community is reading
What the Ringing Means
by Creations CommunityThe ringing after a loud night is the sound of a sense being spent. How hearing works, why it does not grow back, and the small habits that keep it.
The V Overhead
by Creations CommunityWhy geese fly in a V, who is actually crossing Long Island's sky in October, and how to read the lines overhead before winter settles in.
I Am Your Child
by Rhonda Weiss, Leeds, NYI am your child I see through your eyes I hear through your ears Your world vision is mine So be kind And hopeful And positive And loving
Birthright
by Rhonda Weiss, Leeds, NYWhat do you need to live? More than your pocket has More than your bank account shows More than a friend with a bed to lend More than
Friendship
by Rhonda Weiss, Leeds, NYI need a friend To share intimacies with Not pleasantries Or niceties Or any “ees” That shed their leaves Or bark Or wither and decay I need a
From the Feet Up
by Creations CommunityA slow tour of attention from the feet to the top of the head: what the body scan trains, why it suits people the breath loses, and what falling asleep means.
The Leaves Can Stay
by Creations CommunityWhat falls in October is next year's garden: who winters in the leaf layer, what the soil does with it, and how to leave your leaves without losing the yard.
The Inside Joke
by Creations CommunityEvery long relationship mints a private language: nicknames, catchphrases, one-word stories. What that vocabulary actually does, and how to keep it alive.
The Promises No One Hears
by Creations CommunityPrivate promises break first because only you hear the renegotiation. How one small kept promise a week rebuilds the trust you place in your own word.
Wishing Them Well
by Creations CommunityThe old practice of silently wishing people well, including the ones you resent: what it does to rumination, and how to begin with two minutes a day.
What the Beer Is For
by Creations CommunityMost male social life is organized around a drink. What alcohol is actually doing in those rooms, what it quietly costs, and how men gather without it.
Running Cold
by Creations CommunityBeing the cold one is not a quirk or a weakness. The physiology of running cold, the thermostat standard that was never set for you, and what actually warms you.
The Strong One
by Creations CommunityThe person everyone leans on is rarely asked how they are. How the role forms, what it quietly costs, and the one-sentence practice that begins to change it.
The Second Loaf
by Creations CommunityThe first making of anything is mostly noise. Why the second attempt is where craft actually begins, and how to build one into something you make this week.
The Person Who Went First
by Creations CommunityInspiration is not weather, it is evidence. Why watching a near-peer try something changes what feels possible, and where to stand this week to see it.
The Oldest Sense
by Creations CommunitySmell is the one sense wired straight into memory, and the one we never practice. How it works, why it fades, and the simple training that wakes it up.
After the Cast Comes Off
by Creations CommunityThe cast comes off and the body still does not believe it. Why the guard outlives the wound, and how trust comes back: small proofs, offered daily.
The Line the Tide Leaves
by Creations CommunityThe ribbon of seaweed and shell along the sand is the beach's daily report: a census of the water offshore and the start of every dune. How to read it.
The Slow Half of the Breath
by Creations CommunityYour body does its calming on the exhale, not the inhale. The mechanism behind every breathing practice, and how to use it in the middle of an ordinary day.
Learning Their Names
by Creations CommunityYou have lived beside that tree for years without knowing what to call it. On naming as a practice of attention, and ten names worth learning this week.
Come See This
by Creations CommunityThe health of a relationship lives in its smallest exchanges: the tiny overtures we make a dozen times a day, and what happens when they are met or missed.
The Want That Waits
by Creations CommunityMost urges to buy dissolve within days if you let them. A simple waiting list turns the pause between wanting and buying into a way of knowing what you value.
The Ugly Version
by Creations CommunityA lapsed habit rarely dies of the missed days. It dies of the standard you set for coming back. The case for restarting with a version too small to fail.
The Conversation You Keep Rehearsing
by Creations CommunityThe argument you keep replaying is an unpaid bill the mind keeps presenting. Why rehearsal costs more than it wins, and the one decision that quiets the loop.
Getting Up Off the Floor
by Creations CommunityStrength is the quiet currency of independence. Why muscle leaves faster than it feels, what the floor test measures, and how two sessions a week change the arc.
Too Nice to Use
by Creations CommunityThe beautiful notebook stays empty because blank things feel perfect. What that saving protects, and the case for spoiling the first page on purpose.
The Fifteen-Minute Appointment
by Creations CommunityA primary care visit is short and its direction is set in the first minute. How to prepare, open, and ask so your concern gets examined instead of explained away.
The Same Poem, Again
by Creations CommunityWhy a first reading is mostly decoding, what ten mornings with one poem let you see, and a two-minute practice that turns rereading into a way of paying attention.
Black Bean, Date & Tahini Fudge
by Truth and Laughter DentistryA naturally sweetened fudge built on black beans, Medjool dates and tahini, from Truth and Laughter Dentistry. Makes about 16 small squares.
Can We Get Better at Navigating Loss?
by Sue Deagle, Northern VAAmbiguous, anticipated, second-hand, collective, bittersweet. An excerpt from Do Loss on naming the kinds of loss, and why loss is a fork in the road rather than a detour.
Death — You Gotta Love It
by Tony Ærcyus Christie, Cork, IrelandWe are not taught about death at school and most families avoid it. What changes when you treat it as a transition to prepare for rather than a failure to defeat.
Don't Wait for the Dental Cliff
by Integrative Dental Specialists of Long IslandDental problems can wait quietly for years. What changes is not only the tooth but your capacity to heal, and the treatment options still open to you.
Expanding the Heart and Soul
by Valir, Channeled by Dave AkiraThe sixth installment of the Valir series: the heart as a living healing chamber, and what anti-gravity has to teach about the weight a soul carries.
Fire in the Sky (A Veteran's Story)
by Andrea Randa Garvey, Creations MagazineSong lyrics written after a Vietnam veteran came to a healing circle carrying a story nobody had ever asked him to tell.
Haiku
by David Frieman, Huntington Station, NYat the end of life what you gained will fade away what you gave lives on
In the End …
by Joyce and Barry Vissell, Aptos, CAA dying woman's friends brought flowers, candy and jokes. The night cleaner brought a chair and a question. On the love that is already enough.
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