After a real talk with the 8 and 10 year olds about all of our screen time and what we value, we agreed to a daily limit of 1hr 30min. This is the Lego-3d print tracker with a line for dad, mom, Ash, and Syd. Last night, we all read books as a family and ate apples. #mindfulness #digitalwellness.

Learning Braille with the kids to practice memorization tricks. Today I learned to write braille properly by hand, you have to right backwards from right to left so that others can read the bumps on the other side of the page left to right. Amazing.

William Stukeley, friend of Isaac Newton, wrote of Newton watching an apple fall and contemplating gravity. He wasn’t struck by the idea or the apple. Why do you think we preferred the story of the apple falling on his head?
#mindfulness #insight

Mindfulness in Higher Ed is more than stress reduction. It is an invitation to pause and be with where you are in the journey of being a college student. It’s personal and shared sense making. #MASH #mindfulness #highered

On Monday I will celebrate MLK and his inspiration Gandhi, who, according to MLK, “furnished the method” of the Civil Rights Movement. With storms on the horizon, I will remember their message that non-violent resistance is effective (scholars have proven this to be true!), moral, and necessary.

Finger points upward
Moon glows, unseen by the eye
Truth beyond the words.
--A paraphrase from the Lankavatara Sutra.

How often do I mistake my interpretation of what others are saying for what they mean, like mistaking a finger pointing at the moon for the moon itself?
#buddhism #mindfulness