Adrienne Pieroth

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"Now pay them." —

Enjoying my time in Santa Fe. Just a girl and her dog. ❤️

My view this evening. No filter needed. @ Santa Fe, New Mexico

I can’t believe you are 22 today. Happy Birthday, lovey!! I am the mother of a bonafide adult, complete with a college degree and job. Your joy for life, for exploring, for learning and just plain experiencing each day to the fullest always inspires me. 5/28 at 8:55am 8lbs 5oz. Go buy a lottery ticket with 5’s and 8’s in it. Wish I could hug you in person on this most wonderful of days. Love you with all my ❤️. Your ever loving, Mum

For all my technology friends out there...emotional intelligence is as important as technical intelligence. Technology is simply a tool. It's up to humanity to determine how it impacts all of us. While I know humanity can be flawed and inconsistent sometimes (vs. the consistency and lack of emotion from computers), I've never seen the answer as an "either-or" equation. Only when we learn to harness technology imbued with ethics and values that protect humanity will we have succeeded.

Arrogance Peaks in Silicon Valley – 500ish Words As we slip out of touch with reality…

I’m not sure what made me think of this one today. There’s not more going on in the world today, than yesterday, that would make me think and feel this way. Maybe that’s the problem. It’s still the same.
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Yes, change is being made, but not quickly enough. Plus the last year has shown me how deep the rot goes and how easily we can be pushed back on the path of progress.
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I hear many spiritual people say, “We have to see the darkness to shine the light on it. I am glad this happening, I am glad this stuff is being exposed.” While this statement may be true, it can also be true that sometimes it just sucks that we are still fighting these battles. It sucks that it’s so entrenched in our country and the highest offices in our land. And being angry and fed up with that doesn’t mean you aren’t being spiritual or taking the high road. In fact if your anger leads to effective action to change things, that is the high road.
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I sometimes get tired that it’s presented as an “either-or” option, rather than a “both-and” one. I can see the opportunity in the worst of humanity being exposed AND I can be down right pi**ed that it’s happening and call it out when I see it. Don’t simply paste positive spiritual psychology over what is happening in the world. Feel what you feel. Say what you need to say. Then take action to create the change you want to see. For me…that’s the dream of a beloved community MLK spoke so eloquently of…it’s my guiding vision. What’s yours?

This is one of my favorite poets, one of my favorite quotes beautifully put together in a meme. I’ve had it for years, I only wish I knew the original source who created it.
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This has been my week, being present in the moment. First week of Spring Break with my youngest son (18 years old, high school senior). Probably one of our last Spring Breaks together as he enters college and will probably prefer to head to FL or Cabo than on holiday with his mother. :)
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He was sick the week before Spring Break and tired from trying to stay on top of his school work and get healthy. We came to Los Angeles and I asked him what he wanted to do. His response, “Nothing.” He just wanted down time. Space in his life. He’s wired like that. Too many things going on, always moving and going, can sometimes feel overwhelming to him.
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So that is what we have done. We have watched NCAA Basketball Tournament games, and lamented our brackets being busted so quickly. We have walked the beach, watched the sunset, gone to the gym and explored new restaurants. We’ve watched movies and discovered the TV show, The Office. How did neither one of us ever see this show??!! It’s hysterical and has left us belly laughing, saying, “Ok. Just one more.” He’s slept in, every single day, except for the first day of March Madness because he wanted to catch the early games. . . .
It’s been a slow, quiet week. And I have had to watch that part of my mind that pushes me to do more. Get more things done. Plan some stuff and be out in the world. It keeps showing up, I listen, quietly say “thank you,” and disregard its pushiness. This week has been blissful…sweat nectar. In our always going, fast paced world to have this one on one time laughing, talking and spending time with my son means more than checking off items on a To Do List. He’s always been one of my teachers. Since the day he came into the world he has forced me to slow down. Be more present. He’s done it again this week, and I am so very grateful.

Beautiful lazy Sunday. Though we did manage to walk to the beach for the sunset. Starting nearly three weeks in California, my heart is happy. ❤️ @ Redondo Beach, California

It’s a question I am often asked. Especially as meditation becomes more popular, and especially because I have been meditating for nearly 29 years. When someone asks me this question, I think, “How much time do you have?” Because the list is long. But if I had to pick one reason, ok…maybe two reasons…the biggest reasons I chose to meditate everyday are to turn off the noise and reunion.

For a heady, introvert like me. A person who could happily spend days in my own head, in my own space, pondering and analyzing the world, I need silence. I need space to get quiet and hear what is happening inside. To explore and turn over ideas. To reflect on the state of the world, humanity or my own soul. The world is getting louder and more boisterous. The cacophony is deafening some days…actually, most days. Without the space to turn off the noise and simply breathe, I burnout and lose my way. So for me, meditation gives me the space to rest and enjoy the illusive silence my soul craves.

From that silence I hear the voice of my own soul. I hear what my heart wants, what my intuition knows and what my soul longs for. In that space I find a reunion with myself and with my God. I feel connected to something bigger than the world that exists in my mind. When I rise from my cushion, I see the world in a whole new light. A more connected, compassionate light.

Meditation is a returning to yourself over and over again. And in that returning, you not only find pieces of yourself, but also threads of human connection and the force that binds us all together.

Surprisingly, the older I get, the less I know for sure. I thought it would be the opposite. As I grew in years, my certainty would also grow. That hasn’t been the case. The older I get, the more I realize how much I don’t know. How life works and moves in subtle, small ways and that what I see from my perspective is just a small slice of something much bigger. Which means, for me, curiosity is on the rise.

While there are some things that have a solidness in my life, like my values or what I’m willing to fight for in this lifetime. Even those have developed an undercurrent of curiosity, wondering how or why I chose those beliefs, why others didn’t and how I can best live my values every day.

So, perhaps, don’t be so certain. Don’t be so rigid and immobile in your perspective that you miss out on the beauty of curiosity. The beauty of questions of an idea rolling around in your brain, seeing how it feels and what it shows you. Perhaps be curious today about something you always held with certainty. Maybe it affirms your certainty and viewpoint, or maybe it reveals something more to you that gives you pause or the delight of a new discovery. Because, the more I choose curiosity over certainty...it seems to make this life both more rich and beautiful. Don’t let your certainty be the enemy of your curiosity.