Find Your Middle Ground

Category: Lighten Up

  • * There Are No Perfect Human Beings

    Originally posted on Find Your Middle Ground: It’s time to give up the illusion of being perfect and accept our human nature. “There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers…even if they…

  • * Haiku – open the door

    ~ Find Your Middle Ground Its time to open the door To your inner light ~   If you are new to this site, welcome. To find out more about finding your middle ground, please click here.

  • * Is This a Sign of Old Age?

    I was taking the usual drive to my Friday yoga class in Media PA this morning, when I encountered something interesting coming towards me on the road. It was a magnificent specimen, but it definitely wasn’t a sad encounter this time. It looked something like this:   I said out loud “Thank you God!” and…

  • The Row Boat is Empty

    What we think of as wisdom, is often a clarity of perspective. In Judith Lasater’s book Living Your Yoga, she shares a Zen story that really shifted how I saw things. Here it is: One day, a man is in his rowboat on a lake, and it begins to get foggy. Through the fog, he sees…

  • * Be Open to Whatever Path Comes Along

    The title for this post came to me as I saw our terrier pup Teddy enjoying our new path in the garden. It has taken some time to come to pass. (Pun intended) Getting to this jaunty place of enjoyment wasn’t easy. Don and I had been talking about what to do with this part…

  • Inspiration – Lingering in Happiness

    Lingering in Happiness  After rain after many days without rain, it stays cool, private and cleansed, under the trees, and the dampness there, married now to gravity, falls branch to branch, leaf to leaf, down to the ground where it will disappear — but not, of course, vanish except to our eyes. The roots of…

  • Haiku – let go

    ~ Let the outside go Lighten up from the inside Find Your Middle Ground ~ If you are new to this site, welcome! To find out more about finding your Middle Ground please click here.

  • Yoga Humor

    This is worth a share for all my yogi friends ❤️ I said “be the warrior”, not the worrier!

  • * Life isn’t personal

    “When you realize it’s not personal, there is no longer a compulsion to react as if it were.”    ~ Eckhart Tolle “Stepping into the role of detached observer allows us to let things be as they are while maintaining balance.” ~ Nancy at Spirit Lights the Way “When you make it a strong habit not…

  • * Trip the Light

    Thanks to DK over at Live and Learn for bringing on the dance this weekend. This video always makes me smile. Lets all get together around the world in the spirit of play and… dance!

  • * Haiku – snowy memories

    ~ Meringue memories blend into snow filled moments Missing whipped cream ~ Feeling nostalgic today…

  • I Am Not Old

    Originally posted on Radiating Blossom ~ Flowers & Words: I am not old, she said I am rare I am the standing ovation at the end of the play I am the retrospective of my life as art I am the hours connected like dots into good sense I am the fullness of existing you think…

  • * Mindful Yoga, Living and Meditation

    For this New Year, some of you may be considering setting the intention of meditating every day. In my experience, even with the best of intentions, many people start, and then stop with a daily sitting practice. Some will come back to it, and some will give it up completely. So I decided to write…

  • * Elf Awareness

    Originally posted on Find Your Middle Ground: A good friend of mine is embracing her inner “elf” this holiday season. It does make me smile 🙂 What would your Inner Elf look like? We think of elves as those pixie like creatures that help out Santa. They work hard and play.  They make mistakes and…

  • * Inspiration – Wu Hsin wisdom

    “A nose kept in books Cannot smell the dogwoods. While the scholars are Studying the menu, The wise are eating the meal.” ~ Wu Hsin What a great reminder to really tuck into life 💛

  • * One with Everything

    The Yogi and the Pizza The Yogi walked into the Zen Pizza Parlor and said: “Make me one with everything.” When the Yogi got the pizza, he gave the proprietor a $20 bill. The proprietor pocketed the bill. The Yogi said “Don’t I get any change?” The proprietor said, “Change must come from within.” 😊