Islands of Ease
I met (virtually) Zen master Mary Jaksch last year when I had the good luck to find her blog, Goodlife Zen. I was intrigued by the topics she wrote about and the active community of commenters. Since that time, Mary has been given the coveted position of Chief Editor at Leo Babauta’s Write to Done blog while still writing for her own blog and guest posting around the internet. I don’t know how she manages to do all this and stay sane, but her latest guest post on Zen Habits , How to Find Islands of Ease in the Chaos of Life, gives us a look into some of her methods.
Finding this article couldn’t have come at a better time for me (synchronicity, anyone?) because I have been unusually preoccupied with things that I don’t even like to think about. Things like why haven’t I had a single interview after sending out more than 50 resume’s. Things like what will I do once my retirement fund has been spent paying bills. These thoughts have started to tear at my sense of connectivity with the greater universe.
Reading Mary’s article has started to stich that sense back together a bit. Putting her suggestions into practice will not be easy for me, but the truth of what she says is so obvious that even a stubborn goose like myself can see it. I’m actually going to shut down my computer after posting this and take my dogs for a walk on this beautiful, 60-degree day in Denver!
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