A Weekly Column on Being Human by Wellness Specialist Elizabeth Clayton
Dec 21
In the middle of the day in a town square in Sabadell, Catalonia, a single cellist wearing a full tuxedo with tails begins playing Beethoven’s Ode to Joy.
Dec 16
We all want to feel alive and feel the vitality of life coursing through us but lately my hands have made me aware of the very opposite, aware of vitality slipping away.
Dec 06
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; It has to be made, like bread; Remade all the time, made new.” - Ursula K Le Guin
Nov 29
Wouldn't that change everything?
Nov 21
Can you see how your life is like a string of pearls you have strung together one-by-one with each action you have taken?
Nov 14
I’ve never understood how we (I’m acting like I’m not the only one) don’t always know what we’re thinking.
Nov 09
Sometimes when I go about trying to be present, I wonder if I might be corrupting -- just a wee bit -- the actual living of my life with all that deliberate, effortful awareness.
Nov 01
You will never meet a person more passionate about ergonomics than Greg Bowden, Northern Light’s Occupational Health ergonomics guru. He doesn’t understand why we all don’t feel that way.
Oct 25
You might remember a story from ten years ago about a yoga and mindfulness program that transformed an inner-city school’s roughest, toughest, most troubled kids.
Oct 18
There’s something about the smokiness of the eggplant paired up with the lemony herby brightness of the salad that feels like this recipe is the perfect bridge between summer and fall.