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While we are always reflecting and changing throughout the year, it seems that this particular time of year is especially poignant for assessing our selves, our behaviors, our patterns, and our lives.   In the spirit of the New Year, I’d like to offer you a gift. If you are ready to make changes (bigRead more

“When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom taking the world into my arms.”  (Mary Oliver) aging brings us to the abyss facing our mortality wondering if we lived fully truly wholly did we take the time to revel in life’s wonders cherishRead more

to be alone means to be by oneself in that respect it is different from being lonely which means to feel apart separated from others, love, community but am i ever alone when there is such a strong invisible yet palpable connection to others, nature, life, god perhaps my individuality is a grand illusion aRead more

Our American culture teaches us to ‘go after what we want’, to ‘chase our dreams’, and to ‘manifest our destiny’.  And yet, when we do this, life can be like an elusive game of hide-n-seek, as we actively chase after something, only to find it difficult to reach.  But what if we have it allRead more

I heard Bill Bauman ask this of a group recently.  Many of the participants were startled by the question and you could almost see the wheels turning in their minds as they pondered it with regard to their own lives. Other ways to ask it are, “How dead will you be?” or “Will you hideRead more

i began life in a small cocoon mom, dad, home exploring led me to new faces fun experiences and the ability to communicate my thoughts, feelings, questions about life as i grew, so did my world more friends, more ideas i began to question my parents authority, teachers to listen to my friends more andRead more

It’s great to know how to find peace through spiritual practices such as meditation, monitoring your breath, self-reflection, yoga, etc., “but none are so useful as learning to live harmoniously in a committed relationship, being a skillful parent, or juggling the demands of daily life.”  (Dan Millman) The goal of spiritual activities is not toRead more

I’d like to continue our discussion from yesterday’s post “Emotions are indicator lights.”  In some cases, emotions are not indicating something that needs to be addressed, but rather are highlighting an experience that you’re having and are fully present to. A very important friend of mine is moving away, to the east coast to liveRead more

It’s common knowledge that we should choose our friends carefully.  We’ve all heard the saying that you can either “soar with the eagles or fly with the turkeys.”  Most of the time when we hear this advice, it is connected to being successful (career-wise or financially). But it’s even more important from the perspective ofRead more

“Would any one of us undertake even a journey of a few hundred miles without knowing why, without having some purpose?  And yet, so many of us live, undertaking not a chance task, but the great Task of Life itself. . . and yet we ask not why.”  (J. J. Van Der Leeuw) Seems kindRead more