by Jenna Kominski | Dec 28, 2020 | Monday Message, Monday Motivation
This holiday season is surfacing so many different feelings and experiences for so many different people. Celebration of traditions and rituals which ground us and provide us with meaning and perspective are needing to be altered due to the pandemic. Gatherings of...
by Jenna Kominski | Dec 21, 2020 | Monday Message, Monday Motivation
Today is the Winter Solstice for the Northern Hemisphere, marking the shortest day of the year. Leading up to today, we have had less and less light with each passing day. From this day forward, daylight will begin to increase again. For millennia, the winter solstice...
by Jenna Kominski | Dec 14, 2020 | Monday Message, Monday Motivation
Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology at the State University of New York, Robin Wall Kimmerer writes, “Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my...
by Jenna Kominski | Dec 7, 2020 | Monday Message, Monday Motivation
As we search for that perfect holiday gift, may we remain grounded in the awareness and appreciation of that which truly brings us deep and lasting happiness. Denis Waitley writes, “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the...
by Jenna Kominski | Nov 30, 2020 | Monday Message, Monday Motivation
One of the questions that hospice teams have been asking patients for many years now is, “What is most important to you”. Asked at the right moment and in the right way, this simple question can elicit sincere reflection about how that person would like to spend...
by Jenna Kominski | Nov 23, 2020 | Monday Message, Monday Motivation
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. How can you go wrong when you put together cultivating gratitude with the smells and tastes of recipes passed down through generations. Just thinking of the dinner table jam-packed with serving trays and family and friends...
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