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Saloona8/13/2026

A vacation is not a luxury, it’s survival.

The girls are meeting again—I missed it.. It’s time to make coffee for Shabbat and have a moment of truth, without excuses, without guilty feelings, and without the “but how can we” that we all hear around. Yes, the situation is complicated, yes the news in the background pounds like a hammer, but if we keep waiting for everything to be perfect and quiet, we’ll have to start planning for the year 2035. I’m addicted to planning vacations. For me the trip’s Excel sheet is not just a table—it’s therapy. The Instagram moments discovering which cafés opened in Milan or which beach is worth it in Greece are an inseparable part of the vacation itself. The post “A vacation is not a luxury, it’s survival.” first appeared in Salona.

Mindful8/11/2026

A Meditation to Help Build Your Capacity to Navigate Difficulty

In this extended mindfulness practice, Rich Fernandez walks us through a process to hone our capacity to shift, to take perspective, and in some ways, to subtract ourselves from our experiences, which can help us be in wise relationship as we navigate difficulty. The post A Meditation to Help Build Your Capacity to Navigate Difficulty appeared first on Mindful.