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Dear Readers, If you enjoy the poetry I share on my blog, be sure to get your copy of The Spiritual Human — a poetic guide to Life on Earth. In it, I’ve organized much of my poetry so that it walks you through the stages (which are not truly linear) or aspects of mergingRead more

We probably arrived on this planet understanding a great deal about life, but over the years of immersion and indoctrination into our culture, community, religion, education system, family mores, etc., we learned to override our innate understanding with what we were taught by everyone around us. And that’s when life became hard — hard toRead more

If you were to visit a bookstore, you’d have the opportunity to pick up a book, read the back cover, flip through it, read a few pages, and then decide if you’d like a copy for your very own, or if it would make a great gift for someone you know. So here is yourRead more

The Spiritual Human — a poetic guide to Life on Earth is now available for pre-release purchase! Click the link to purchase your copies now (saving $6.95 off the cover price) and they will ship Oct. 2nd when the book is released. (or simply go to the Books tab on this website) http://eliseonlife.com/books/ With 190 poemsRead more

this morning’s news left me kerfluffled did i do something wrong did it matter so there i sat confused wanting to be flustered even agitated so i gave myself permission to splash in the feelings knee-deep in the humanness of it frolicking in irritation dallying in the annoyance for sometimes it feels good to feelRead more

Dear Readers, I’m so thrilled to share with you that my first book will be available for pre-publication orders beginning in early September, and will be published and shipped beginning Oct 1st. Here is an excerpt from the book’s back cover: The  Spiritual Human: A guide book to life on Earth — Imagine being handedRead more

that skin color determines worth to put yourself down that it’s okay to litter (especially if it’s something little like gum or a cigarette) that animals are less valuable than humans how to criticize that it’s okay to complain to eat fast food or to crave sweets to analyze everything with your brain that ourRead more

what if every person you met each plant you noticed every animal you encountered and even the rocks of the ground were god in disguise what if that glowing compliment the warm, supportive hug the lust-filled gaze and even the mean smack were god in disguise what if everyone everything everywhere without exception were godRead more

it might appear as though life has a secret lock with a special key required to access joy, delight, peace but if this were true don’t you believe you would also be given a way to unlock it and so it is that you already have everything you need to tap into life’s full bounty whatRead more

Wash yourself of yourself.”  (Rumi) And what is left? God. When we strip away the foibles, idiosyncrasies, patterns of thought, adopted beliefs, and faulty perceptions, we find our essence. It is our receptacle for a divine plug, our basin for the divine water to fill, our purest core and source of oneness. When we allow theRead more