This week, my dear friend SB mentioned these two lines from Mary Oliver’s poem The Summer Day:

Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
– Mary Oliver

I was introduced to this book via Ezra Klein’s podcast interview with the author Rhaina Cohen, an especially engaging episode because Ezra was passionately interested in the topic!

This is such a beautiful forgiveness practice!

A Hawaiian practice for forgiveness or reconciliation, it works outside the bounds of imagination or understanding, in a realm of love and illumination.

A couple of weeks ago, my friend Scott Ressler, a film producer at National Geographic, and I hosted a gathering called Digital Mindfulness: A Conversation on Balance. My primary takeaway? I LOVED IT! 

Since the start of the year, my early morning meditation class has been focusing on the Eightfold Path, the Buddha’s wise recipe for liberation. 

This is British author Susie Boyt’s seventh novel and the first published in the US. It’s exquisite.