by Kim Ort | Aug 10, 2016 | Adventures in Seeing, Books, Contemplation, Habits, Inspiration, Practices, Seeing
I spent the summer of 1976 with my Dad in Windsor, Ontario, a place I’d never lived before. He’d moved there a few months earlier and was able to get me a job as a security guard on the night shift at the place where he worked. Since I had no other options...
by Kim Ort | Aug 3, 2016 | Contemplation, Habits, Inspiration, Practices
Hello. It’s good to be back after taking a mini-sabbatical (or pause) from blogging during the month of July. I focused on family, writing, and the Adventures in Seeing workshop, where we practiced, among other things, in building pauses into our days. Why is...
by Kim Ort | May 25, 2016 | Books, Contemplation, Inspiration, Practices, Seeing
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the benefits of wandering. Recently, at the meditation and writing retreat with Natalie Goldberg, we practiced slow walking before writing, and I mean very slow, at about a quarter of our regular speed. Natalie writes in her book,...
