Wabi Sabi Woman's Posts

A very special story about the little Christmas tree that I had for one full year at Dragonfly Cottage, a cut tree that even started to grow little soft, green pine cones. It was a year of magic, wonder, and love, and it a story about how love makes all things grow, and last, and how we might do this with other things in our lives...

Here we go! December 1, first day of the holiday season!; Happy Hanukkah!; Magical things in the works for 2014 and daily gifts in December for Members of The Cozy Room and my mailing list, join either for free at www.maitriatdragonflycottage.com; SNOW -- and how we don't get it here, how I long for it having grown up with it, and more; Day 36 of 365 Days of Mindfulness and Whooeee what a huge project and fun and delightful and joyous!; Working with SARK; and so much more!

Moving into Thanksgiving week; Embracing the holiday season ahead; Coming in January 2014, the long-awaited Outsider Institute for those who feel as though they never fit in in life, a loving, compassionate, gentle community; and the story of the beginning of the endtimes with my beloved 15 1/2 year old pug Sampson.

We are two weeks before Thanksgiving and we've had our first frost. There went the basil!; my daughter and I have begun the adventure of watching Downton Abbey; The Thanksgiving To New Year Holiday Slide eCourse is starting soon. Tonight Day 22 of The 365 Days of Mindfulness at Dragonfly Cottage goes up on the blog. The magical new wall draped with lights on my deck, and how to create paradise where you are.

Day 15 of "365 Days of Mindfulness" today and the journey continues; I read yesterdays post, "Mindfulness Is Not A Perfect Practice"; If you join my free newsletter you can get the daily posts delivered to your email box and also receive my free eBook, "Embracing Fitting Out When You Never Really Fit In."; Beautiful November days, crisp and cool in this resting place between Halloween and Thanksgiving; A Free Video course called "Surviving The Thanksgiving To New Year Holiday Slide" for members of the free Community, "The Cozy Room at Dragonfly Cottage" ~ I'd love for you to join us!; "Comfort Calls," and more... Visit www.maitriatdragonflycottage.com for more information and access to all of the podcasts since the beginning of April.

365 Days of MIndfulness at Dragonfly Cottage ~ a year of daily blog posts exploring living mindfully, falling away, coming back, and the importance of being kind to ourselves as we take on learning any new practice; "Happy Mindfulness"; Using the word "Noticing" instead of "Mindfulness" and being very kind to yourself as you practice; NaNoWriMo ~ the November National Novel Writing Month; advice from Yoda; and more...

The last Sunday in October, the cool crisp weather a blessing; A long meditation and healing practice to use if you are experiencing pain, fear, loss, anxiety or other difficult times, I lead you through a breathing and relaxation practice with a visualization, I call it "Tide In and Tide Out," and have been working with students as well as practicing it in my own life for decades; New series on my "Maitri's Heart" blog called "365 Days of Mindfulness at Dragonfly Cottage." I will be updating the blog daily for the next year with lots of photos and a record of moving mindfully through the days. That is at www.maitriatdragonlfycottage.com, then click on the tab for Maitri's Heart.; How to handle "The Thanksgiving To New Year Holiday Slide" which starts on Halloween if you have young children...

Oops! Sunday slipped away from me and I am recording the "Sundays At Dragonfly Cottage" podcast on Monday; Working around the clock to revise the website and, in addition to The Cantadora's Way private sessions The Deep Listening Soul Guidance sessions are now available as well; Gathering the fall harvest, drying herbs, and cooking with rosemary, making potpourri with herbs and roses; Making an altar or sacred corner at home; Waking up at Dragonfly Cottage with a pug on my head; and more! (And a bit of puggy woofing in the background!)

The delight and joy of being a grandparent ~ how, as an adopted child, my blood lineage started with the birth of my first child and what a deep and profound thing that was for me, as well as my other two children as the family grew, and the utter delight of my eldest daughter coming in with her family so that I got to see my 18 month old grandson Pierce and my sweet 9 year old grandson Lucas who lives here, and the family celebration we had last night. The grandchildren continue the lineage in a profound and deeply moving way; The private FB community, The Cozy Room at Dragonfly Cottage, free, a very warm, loving community, with 3 circles now for fiber lovers of any type, one for artists of all types, and a dear one for The Homely Arts, cooking, gardening, and making your home a safe haven and cozy nest; the incredible experience of waking up to the practice of mindfulness again; I am now taking Private Students, info. on my website, as well as info. about the community, and a new blog post about the pugs w

The background to the podcast has been provided by Miss Scarlet the grey parrot and trying to speak from the heart as she yells out in an old man's rednecky voice that she came with from her previous owner is an interesting challenge!; Reaching out and touching you, my listeners, through these podcasts, is very special to me, I thank you so much for being here with me; Hard bi polar days and anxiety rising as I approach the opening my business, what it all means, and how important the work is to me; How the process of The Cantadora's Way works and the kind of people I will be working with; Working from a cloistered world; Cooking wonderful autumn meals, the sacredness in chopping vegetables. Cooking as a spiritual act; We have the ability to resculpt our lives and create our world anew; and more...

Memories of autumn, and autumn now; As night falls, and it gets dark earlier ~ cozying in; I once lived and raised my children in a passive solar house in the side of a hill overlooking the Blue Ridge mountains; a tour of the inside of Dragonfly Cottage and the Cozy Room. The new free, private community on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/groups/TheCozyRoomatDragonflyCottage ~ Come join us!

Happy Autumn!; Cooler days, darker earlier, the peace that it brings; Tiny new rescue pug Delilah is going to become a service dog for me, what that means, and why I need one; Creating paradise just exactly where you are, right now; The road to Dragonfly Cottage, from the seeds of a dream to the present moment, a 15 year journey...

A beautiful Sunday afternoon at Dragonfly Cottage; Watching a mother cardinal feeding her fledgling, and capturing it on video; New webcam just arrived so I will be doing videos to come to share with students and a free channel on YouTube; Continuing the self love journey with Belly Dancing, Hula-Hooping and Curvy Yoga!; I read to you an enchanting tale of a little girl whose life was saved through stories, birdsong, golden flowers, and the animals around her at her little cottage in the woods, "The Cantadora's Way" and more...

The name of the podcasts has changed to "Sunday Nights At Dragonfly Cottage" as I will now be recording every Sunday night due to the length of the podcasts and the numbers of people who are joining us, over 10,000 each week. Thank you all for joining me here. In this podcast I share a long meditation that you can use, an example of my work and recent blog entry using story, "The Cantadora's Way," for a healing journey and a way to transform your life. In the next weeks I will begin to take students in group settings, or one on one, or gather dear ones in "Maitri's Inner Circle." Finally a celebration of six decades of writing, teaching, healing, and more.; Little Delilah my new rescue pug is here one week, and what a joy she is. The pugs and parrots and life here at Dragonfly Cottage are the beautiful center of my work and life. Here I share with you my view out my studio windows from my desk, the feeders that I gaze at all day long as I work, watching the wild birds, as I share my life with you and welcome

A new little girl pug named Delilah comes to live at Dragonfly Cottage (and she wants a latte!); More on pug rescue, a little pug mix named Fiona, a very tiny little girl, comes in pregnant and has 6 puppies this week; thoughts on living with senior rescue dogs, the love and care at the end of their lives and dealing with the loss; My first EFT session and the reverberations that it has had in my life all week long; My work as it moves forward, shapeshifting and moving into deep realms of healing and transformation; and more... (There will now be a new podcast every Sunday from Dragonfly Cottage.)

A noisy week with workmen in the house made it a week before this podcast!; Living with bi polar disorder and med changes, moving through times of adjustment; a new little pug is coming from Mid Atlantic Pug Rescue to Dragonfly Cottage, a little 5 year old girl Delilah, AND a little singing! The songs I've come up with so far to welcome the wee girl; thoughts from reading May Sarton and Colette; and more...

Recording late after computer problems, being sick, carpet being torn out so lots of racket in the cottage; Musings on sacred art, what do you see?; A day of meditation and contemplation, Thich Nhat Hanh, "Deep Listening"; The evolution of my work, and what is it that is best for me to do?; Meandering quietly through this podcast during a low energy time, still not quite well, but wanting to be with you all, my dear listeners...

Goals, Deadlines, Dreams and being kind to ourselves; Interstices; "Being yourself for a living" and check out katwise.com and see the magical rainbow house!; My absolutely inspirational friend, Joseph Sharp, author of Living Our Dying, and the recent, Quitting Crystal Meth, who has lived with the HIV virus for over 30 years, beat cancer in the last year, and more (I love you Joey!); Your dreams are not somewhere over the rainbow; You are worthy...

Returning to my deep work, writing, solitude and silence; new blog posts every weekday; Every Wednesday a special "Tea With Maitri" post (And check the archives on the right-hand side as only the recent post shows up.) and revising and preparing for publication my book Tea Mind, Be Kind; Listening to TedTalks with Gala Darling, Jonathan Fields, Eleanor Longden, and Temple Grandin; Working with my mentor, SARK, on my new book, Tending Grace; and remembering my mentor, muse and friend, May Sarton.

The Outsider's Toolkit; A new way to work, structure, blog posts 5 days a week, and more; Once again, the "Hurdles" exercise and the importance of using the things that sustain us to get us over the hurdles; Returning to my fiber art; Balancing work and life.