Mind Body Mama: Mama Makes Mistakes

Remember when I wrote about how much I enjoy practicing beginner's mind by making mistakes? Well, I'm just delighted about having an opportunity to deepen my practice. It's made all the more swell by messing up a reference to a local artist who I quite enjoy.

A few weeks ago I wrote about my issues with underpants and referenced a favorite song of Small's. I said the original was written by Denis Caraher. Wrong, wrong, wrong. The underpants song was written and performed by Mr. Richard on his album, Might As Well Sing.

Small pointed this out to me, but not before I posted the blog. That would have been too helpful. I've been fairly overwhelmed of late, so the error sat on the blog until Dennis contacted me himself. Now that's embarrassing.

But I'm fixing it now and it prompted me to give more credit to his albums, Bow Wow Wow and the new one, I Miss the Mud. I especially like the song "I Love My Mom" and was delighted to hear it featured on our local public radio station with a terrific local kid singer, Emma Henderson. I was so delighted that I wanted to share the link with you all, but of course I didn't follow through on that either. (Now I am searching for that you shut up box.) Time to practice a little compassion, forgiveness and behavior modification.