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 | Jun 29, 2016 | Adventures in Seeing, Contemplation, Openness
In the Adventures in Seeing workshop, we do an exercise with food that is designed to awaken all of our senses, not just the visual one. The more our senses are heightened, the more present and more memorable the experience will be. In the book, The Spell of the...
