molly's blog

It is largely great love and great suffering that create spiritual listening and larger seeing. ~ Richard Rohr While everyone is stuck at home, lonely, bored, limited in access and opportunity, while we are consciously or unconsciously reflecting on our value in this...

What is Bedside Yoga? The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention. ~ Mary Oliver To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson   Bedside Yoga began in 2003 or thereabouts. I...

For one who seeks to scale the heights of yoga, action is said to be the means. Once they have scaled those heights, repose is said to be the means. ~Bhagavad Gita 6.3 It has been awhile since I have put out a newsletter and am happy to finally send this out to all of...

The power of imagination makes us infinite.” ~ John Muir This past year has been by far one of the most challenging, stressful and unmoored years of my life. Like in my daily open ocean swims, I have felt tossed around, in over my head, a tiny thing in a vast sea of...

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. ~ Romans 12:2   Christ is God’s Infinite Intelligence that is present in all creation. The Infinite Christ is the “only begotten son” of God the Father, the only pure...

“What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and truth.” ~ Christina Rossetti “I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of...

Visiting my parents at their home for the first time since my sister died, we attended a Catholic mass said by their favorite priest. This mass was special to them because Father Camilo centered his homily around an email my dad had sent to all his children, talking...

Sometimes I think my life is just like anyone else’s - a flowing river of experiences: opportunities offered and opportunities missed, countless joys and countless sufferings, heartbreaks, delights and surprises. A very ordinary life, perhaps. Other times I wonder how...

Sometimes I wonder what I’m doing and if it was the right decision to leave Seattle and Samarya. Then I realize that’s the wrong question. The question might be, Is it the right decision to be here, now? My answer comes when, after traveling for two weeks, the kids...

How can people be so heartless How can people be so cruel Easy to be hard Easy to be cold How can people have no feelings How can they ignore their friends Easy to be proud Easy to say no Especially people who care about strangers Who care about evil and social...

"[There are] moments when it is clear-if I have the eyes to see-that the life I am living is not the same as the life that wants to live in me. In those moments I sometimes catch a glimpse of my true life, a life hidden like the river beneath the ice. And . . . I...