by Linda Cohen | Mindfulness, Musings
I am a believer that we can often find a silver lining even in the most difficult of situations. I know we certainly have! My perceptions around giving and receiving have been heightened once again these past several weeks. My husband was diagnosed with bladder cancer...
by Linda Cohen | Featured, Lovingkindness Challenge, Mindfulness
In February, I invited others to join me in a 28-Day Lovingkindness Challenge. I posted on social media daily ideas for ways we can engage in kindness. If you didn’t see these suggestions, you can find them all here on the 1,000 Mitzvahs FB page. Some that really...
by Linda Cohen | Featured, Lovingkindness Challenge, Mindfulness, mitzvahs, Resources
It’s February 1st! I don’t remember loving this month as a kid as much as I do now. Perhaps choosing to get married on February 14th has something to do with it. There is a celebratory mood in the air in February and it’s special to have our...
by Linda Cohen | Ideas, Mindfulness
Happy New Year!! As 2016 came to an end, I had an interesting revelation. When I was younger, I often felt different because as a Jew we celebrate our Jewish New Year in the fall and it often felt like the secular New Year wasn’t completely my holiday. However,...
by Linda Cohen | Jewish information, Mindfulness
Last week, a letter ran in the Oregonian opinion section. It was from a mother whose son has dwarfism and she had experienced another family using the word midget to describe her son and laughing after they saw him. The letter she explained how disappointed and angry...
by Linda Cohen | Mindfulness, Musings, What now?
I don’t think my daughter has ever actually made me a lanyard. She’s made me plenty of other beautiful arts projects over the years. She’s a creative and artistic young women. But certainly a lanyard wasn’t one of them. And yet suddenly the...
