by Marijke McCandless | May 8, 2022 | Listen
“You’ve got to flake the rope!” Meditation has played a key role in my life for more than twenty-five years. I appreciate that meditation is a gentle but disciplined training for the excitable puppy that is my brain — teaching me to focus, to...
by Marijke McCandless | May 7, 2022 | Write
Recently I led a workshop for the National Association of Memoir Writers, called “Exposing the Poetry of Presence in Memoir: Naked writing as a juicy practice for getting present.” Despite technical difficulties at the start–my computer completely...
by Marijke McCandless | Apr 14, 2022 | Write
A hundred of us were on a 3-day Outwild retreat for individuals looking to create more outdoor and value-driven lifestyles. On the afternoon of the second day, a large group of us sat at covered picnic tables at the Earth Trek retreat center nestled alongside the...
by Marijke McCandless | Feb 27, 2022 | Write
What excites me more than anything is what I like to call “juicy practices for getting present.” By this, I mean practices that arouse my curiosity, teach me to accept myself and the world as I find it and encourage me to experience moments of delight available right...
by Marijke McCandless | Oct 23, 2021 | Listen
His large, square, freckled hands almost deftly opened the small “Brownie Bites” wrapper. I had got it started for him, worried that my 88-year-old father couldn’t manage the strength needed to get the initial tear going. I watched as he pulled apart the opening at...
