Author: Tara May

This week is Christmas, next week is New Years, and after that, we say goodbye to 2014. I’m finding it very hard to believe that an entire year has gone by since I left my career job. There were so many things I wanted to do that I didn’t get done! This time last year, the days stretched out ahead of me, presenting all sorts of possibilities. I was finally free to spend my time doing what I wanted to do. I’m not one to set resolutions, but I had a mental list of all the things I would...

In August 2014, Pico Iyer, college professor, travel writer, author, and public speaker, gave a talk on the importance of stillness. In this overcharged world that we live in, we are inundated with noise and stimulation. It’s rare that any of us take a moment—a few minutes, an hour, a day, or even a year—to stop and simply be still. Iyer’s talk was about slowing down and unplugging from the machine, if only for a short time, in order to reconnect with the inner self that still exists within all of us. Iyer tells us that while we are...