Parkpoint Santa Rosa

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QUESTIONS. While the past can be reviewed and retold in stories and accounts, and the present can be felt with all of your senses, the future remains elusive. Truth is, we never know just how the next moment will unfold. We can make plans and take steps in a particular direction, but uncertainty is always with us. How might you become more comfortable with living the questions? In mindful presence, Lori Furbush Parkpoint Instructor & Website/Communications Asst... Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. Rainer Maria Rilke

COMPLETION. An extraordinarily unique and challenging year is nearing completion. Likely you have experienced moments of frustration, acceptance, sadness, joy, worry, trust, fear, and courage. Perhaps your world was turned upside down; your perception of what is true was tested. You may have resisted and you may have adapted. You might even have found silver linings. As this year ends and another begins, we cannot help but hope for a better future. And yet, as always, much re...mains complex, nebulous, and incomplete. The question then is whether we can find satisfaction and even peace, knowing that our strengths and our weaknesses make us complete. In mindful presence, Lori Furbush Parkpoint Instructor & Website/Communications Asst When the mind is at peace, the world too is at peace. Nothing real, nothing absent. Not holding on to reality, not getting stuck in the void, you are neither holy nor wise, just an ordinary fellow who has completed his work. Layman P’ang

Parkpoint members enjoying Vinoyasa and sunset at Notre Vue Estate Winery & Vineyards. Thank you Dawn Justice for bringing Parkpoint outside. This was the final event of the season but we’re planning more for 2021!

CHANGE. Sometimes it is interesting to pause and reflect on how you have changed over the years. If life were always rosy, you would have had no need to evolve and change. Honor all those times you were challenged, as they continue to mold who you are becoming every day. You are changing, and yet in many ways you are becoming who you already were, underneath the layers of life’s conditioning. How have you changed over the course of your life? Have you become more comfortable... in your own skin? Did you let go of a biased perception? Are you less quick to anger? Do you choose your relationships more carefully? Have you learned to slow down? Have you found your voice? What is changing within you now? What is being revealed that has been there all along? In mindful presence, Lori Furbush Parkpoint Instructor & Website/Communications Asst Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift. Mary Oliver

Parkpoint kids hard at work!

DISCIPLINE. Well, there’s a word that may have sparked a groan upon reading. Disciplineugh. Discipline may evoke a feeling of having to do something we’re told, when we’d really rather be doing something else. What if we reframe our approach and consider that discipline does not close us down but rather opens us up? Doing something regularly, even tediously, gives us the opportunity to reconnect with our senses, to discover the profound within the simple, and to explore old ...information in new ways. In mindful presence, Lori Furbush Parkpoint Instructor & Website/Communications Asst The word discipline comes from disciple, someone who is in a position to learn. Jon Kabat-Zinn