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Sunday Reflection — March 8, 2026

Funday Reflection meets tomorrow March 8th 10:00-11:00 at the Cohasset Lightkeeper’s.  When you turn off of Border Street, you’ll take your first right up toward the Lightkeepers.  There’s ample parking just beyond the building, a short walk up to where we meet.

Come enjoy mindful practice…live music…shared reflection….in a beautiful space!  

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Tomorrow we’ll hear words from Pema Chodron’s How We Live is How We Die (The Two Truths, chapter nine if you’d like to read along).  Pema invites us to consider the differences between “relative truths” and “absolute truth,” and  how mindfulness practice invites us to hold both ways of being truthful.  

I’ve been thinking about how hard it is, in everyday life, to move between these two ways of truthfully experiencing the world.  We might know that “nothing lasts forever” or that “everything changes.”  But to love someone with what feels like your whole heart…. and to experience separation and divorce, sickness and health, the death of a partner…to go from what feels absolutely secure to the shakiest of grounds….so very hard and painful.  Or how about the social and political norms that hold us together in American democracy?  The “rule of law,” “common decency,” however you might describe it.  Democracy in this country is sometimes called the “Great American Experiment.”  How scary to acknowledge that, like any experiment, things can go awry, go off the rails, or lead to different results from what has held for 250 years.  

How can mindfulness practice help us take good care of ourselves and others, when the ground feels so shaky underfoot?  How can we investigate and make sense for ourselves, here in our little corner of South Shore, what is true – true in the news, true about the stories we tell ourselves, true in Pema’s helpful words?  The granite underfoot at the Cohasset Lightkeeper’s will surely hold us steady.  How can we use our steadiness to connect with people and places where the ground has been blasted, where the Great American Experiment hasn’t seemed so great?  

Come sit gently with yourself and others.  Hold your questions with openhearted curiosity.  I look forward to seeing you soon!

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  • “I have already written some facts of my life, journal-style. But this new Recollections experience allows me to share with my grandchildren, and hopefully their children, some life memories in my own words, my voice for posterity.”

    – Karen from Cohasset

  • "I have been a care giver my whole life. I helped both elderly parents live in their home as long as possible. Been a bedside nurse for over 40 years and raised 2 children . After my mom who was my best friend died Covid hit. I worked in a Boston Hospital ICU T throughout it. When it was over I realized i had lost my compassion. After another year I retired. I started to volunteer to have a sense of purpose. One day I walked into Mindfulness Plus and it changed me I was encouraged to cry and talk and most of all heal. The wisdom of the group was invaluable. Every meeting gave me fresh insight. And soon my words helped others. I will be forever grateful to this group that has transformed me (with alot of hardwork on my part) I encourage everyone to try it. You have nothing to loose and everything to gain."

    - Pat from Hanover

  • “I find the Living with Loss Community Support Group to be very warm and supportive. This experience has allowed me to expose vulnerabitlies without judgment, and the compassionate energy shared is personally healing. I am grateful to the Mindfulness Plus organization and their offerings to the South Shore community.”

    – Claire from Quincy

  • “I have found some comfort attending the Living with Loss group. It is nice being surrounded by others that are also suffering loss and sharing our thoughts and emotions. It is a gentle, non-pressured atmosphere and I have always left feeling just a little bit better after attending. I hope in time to not need the group support but right now I do and it’s a safe, easy, supportive, comfortable place to share some of the tough emotions around significant loss.”

    – Rebecca from Hull

  • “Friday Reflection offers the opportunity to sit with a group of friends, silently review my past week, and if I choose, speak in confidence and without judgemental feedback about what it is like to live in my body, mind and soul. And more than that, I'm offered the enlightening and fascinating opportunity to listen to other members of the group do the same. I find it centering, peaceful and harmonious.”

    - Bill from Weymouth

  • “It is an honor to be a volunteer interviewer in the M+ Recollections program. It is a privilege to enable community members to tell stories of their lives that hold special meaning for them that they can choose to share with others. Through being part of this process, I also learn about, and gain new perspectives about the diversity of our community members, as well as deepening my connections to our community.”

    - Paula from Hull

  • "Loss and grief equals pain. The healing process from this pain is hard work and is exhausting. Whether your loss is deeply personal or on a bigger societal level, the Tuesday Living with Loss group provides a safe space to share your loss with others in a non-judgmental, pressure-free environment. You can share many words or sit quietly the entire time. Knowing that there are others who support you and collectively embrace your soul has helped my own healing process continue after the sudden death of my husband last year."

    Gail from Scituate

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