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There is nothing that I enjoy more than sitting in the garden on a warm summer day nestled amidst trellised green beans and towering corn with a good book. I grew up with privilege and while I am aware of that now, as a small child I had no idea that I was living in the idyllic wonderland of my parents' creation. 

My childhood home sat on a little over an acre in the Portland hills. Minutes from downtown, it might have been a world away. We were enclosed on three sides by forest and a sea of flowers, fruit and...

I awake each day lit up with a deep sense of gratitude and purpose. Now, more than ever, is the time to be present and to find Joy in Today. If not Joy, than acceptance.

I once had a yoga instructor who said that any time we experience discomfort because we don’t like our circumstances, we create a tension between the place where we are and the place where we want to be. We cannot live happily in this tension. There is no Life there. Living and enjoying life happens when you accept your current circumstances and you can transcend them...