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Cultivating Equanimity If you work hard at something but find that too many obstacles prevent you from accomplishing it, you may have to give up. In that case, you shouldn’t get depressed. Conditions aren’t right. Perhaps this will change, perhaps it won’t. You are not a failure. Becoming upset only causes suffering. – Master Sheng…

This is no1 of the I love Long Island series. Don’t get me wrong. What I love is the water. When you get near it, and before you can see it, the light changes. Everything gets bigger, brightens. The smell in the air hints of salt. There’s a breeze. it’s a powerful, beautiful living thing,…

our new puppy arrived! yesterday. 10 weeks old and away from all he knows- parents, siblings, home. I wonder what that is like for him. he cries when we leave him alone in his crate. I feel bad for him. I remember when Matthew was 3 months old and he too left behind everything and…

Reading: The Reverend Linda Anderson Columnist Linda Weltner tells this very comforting story. “My husband,” she writes, “plays the tuba badly. No, wretchedly. Execrably. With unforgettable inexpertise. After my husband played ‘When Irish Eyes Are Smiling’ at my older daughter’s wedding, as a way of welcoming our son-in-law’s Irish family, his father created an award…

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