When Paralysis Sets In...
Do you ever have the nagging feeling that you’re not doing enough? In my case, that feeling is probably warranted...
Read MoreGathering Place
Yesterday, we gathered once again in the same simple brick house. As is often my way, I was there participating in it, but also observing it. There was such love in it—all of it.
Read MoreA Saturn Return Tale
To say that I was blown away doesn’t do justice to the feeling that I had, because such an experience absolutely stretches the boundaries of what we consider to be our world and the rules that govern it. In fact, I recall walking around for weeks afterward feeling as if I was straddling two worlds and wondering how I would ever, ever, reconcile them...
Read MoreWhen Being is Doing
There are some trends like, say, brushing our teeth twice a day, that managed to make the jump from a cool, interesting new thing to being woven right into our social fabric, so I’m hoping that the thing I’m referring to—the practice of “mindfulness”—is able to make that jump, too.
Read MorePink Elephants on Parade
It’s as if the polarization and the resulting stretching apart of the different elements in our society are such that release—in some form or another—surely must come soon.
Read MoreOn Means (and Meanness) and Ends
Wisdom is probably the trait, of all that a President should have, I deem to be most essential because it presupposes other traits. I have a tiny snippet of newspaper pinned to my bulletin board at work, and on it are the words, “Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom”, attributed to American psychiatrist and writer Dr. Theodore Rubin.
Read MoreMy Brutally Honest, Extremely Clever, Very Dependable, and Often Mysterious Friends
Actually, I may have a few human friends who fit this description, but the friends I’m referring to here are my dreams. I know that you have such friends as well, but you may not know it. Allow me to tell you about mine
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