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a note from Erin I don’t know what I’m doing. And I’m ok with that. There’s a little book on Zen which I adore, called “Open and Innocent: The Gentle Passionate Art of Not-Knowing” by Scott Morrison. This favorite quote comes from that book. I love the title, and I love that question. (Don’t you?!)…

 a note from Erin: “The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.” – TS Eliot I was sitting on the porch last night, sipping prosecco with Carl and a dear old friend whom we’ve known since we were all in our 20s and who is visiting from…

 a note from Erin: Hello! Oh, what a splendid and rich weekend we shared at our Trusting Your Life Retreat with my dear friends and extraordinary teachers, Nan Seymour and Laurie Wagner along with an incredible group of participants. So much beauty and courage and kindness – it was the kind of gathering that makes you think…

 a note from Erin: One of my favorite things about living in my neighborhood is walking in the nearby graveyard. It exists on 120 acres and is dotted with graves from the 1840s onwards. A fantastic bird-watching spot, it is filled with abundant trees sheltering old and new graves. I’ve walked here regularly over the past…

a note from Erin I’d love to share with you an excerpt from one of my favorite books of recent years, called Seven Thousand Ways to Listen, by Mark Nepo. It’s so gorgeous. It reads like poetry. It’s one of those books where I’ve dog-eared at least 100 pages and filled my journal with gorgeous quotations.…