My friend Ponnya is on retreat in her home country of Myanmar. For 10 days, she ordained as a nun, wore nun's robes, and walked barefoot...

Icicles hang from tree branches. Freezing rain means the ground is glazed with ice. Temperatures hover right around freezing. Drip, drip, ...

Ice Cubes on a Stick Taking a walk by the river, i was surprised to see icicles on the shrubs in a variety of forms--ice cubes on a stic...

A friend has a labyrinth in her backyard. What a great place for walking meditation. A labyrinth leads you around and around, back and f...

The snow has melted, but the ground is frozen, so the outflow of my little fishpond has been caught in action--a scale of ice frozen on top...

The snow is melting, so i started raking near the edges of the snow, where i could see papery tan beech leaves resting on the ground--in the...

It's the first day of winter, but it feels like the first day of spring. The snow has melted; it's 50 degrees; the birds are sin...