by Kim Ort | Jun 1, 2016 | Adventures in Seeing, Books, Humility, Perspective, Possibilities, Third Act, Workshops
Today is my birthday, a milestone one I might add. If you read my blog, you know that I’ve been writing and thinking lately about how to live the third act of life, commonly known as retirement. As I enter this third act, my mantra moving forward comes from a...
by Kim Ort | May 30, 2016 | Books, Colour, Contemplation, Inspiration, People
You know how some of the smallest and most unexpected moments remain indelible in your memory? Ten years ago, I was at an environmental conference and someone read the excerpt below from a book by Rebecca Solnit called A Field Guid to Getting Lost. Read it slowly and...
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,...
