by Beth Coyote | Apr 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
Robb and I are waiting for the surgery person to come and get him for collarbone surgery. He broke it mountain biking yesterday. It needs surgery for it to heal properly. I’m his companion, driver and entertainer. He is in pain. Of course he is. We’re on...
by Beth Coyote | Jan 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
New year’s resolutions are usually abandoned by February. Gym owners and Weight Watchers meetings know this. There is another way to think about a new beginning. As we are taught the basics of meditation practice, whenever we find ourselves drifting off during a...
by Beth Coyote | Oct 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
I’m still swimming without a wetsuit in Lake Washington, even into October because it is so warm. The air is full of smoke so this morning I won’t meet a friend at the water’s edge. Maybe tomorrow. We say that a lot to each other, maybe tomorrow. I...
by Beth Coyote | May 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
As I learn of the shootings in Texas, and the murders in Buffalo last week, and in every week of this year, I am yet again dumbstruck! I feel an ocean of tears and compassion for so many who have been killed, harmed, and those left behind who have lost children and...
by Beth Coyote | Feb 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
On Monday brother number two called to tell me that Dave, our oldest sibling, had died. He suffered from Alzheimer’s for several years and had been living in a memory care facility. When I called Dina, his wife, she said he hadn’t recognized her for the...
by Beth Coyote | Jan 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
Dearest Thuy Even when the cloud is not there, it continues and snow or rain. It is impossible for the cloud to die. It can become rain or ice, but it cannot become nothing. The cloud does not need to have a soul in order to continue. There’s no beginning and no...