Happy New Year! January always feels like a fresh beginning to me. I spend a little time setting goals for things I’d like to do in the coming year. But more importantly, I find myself thinking about how I want…
Surfing 2020
Pleasure and Desire
Sometimes the lowest point in my day is when I’m trying to convince my daughter to make her first attempt at a new and challenging song. While a little difficulty keeps things interesting sometimes things feel impossibly hard. While we…
How do we frame these times?
It’s so difficult to hold all the danger and uncertainties around us and stay active, engaged, and creative! In a single day I cycle through a bunch of different frames of mind, each with its own level of adrenaline, fear,…
Did someone stop the music?
Things haven’t been going as expected. All sorts of stuff, big and small, is going down. Most notably, earlier this month while I was in Greece my mother-in-law died and I needed to cut my trip short to return for…
What Does it Take to Move with the Flow of Life?
You have the capacity for a creative, vital life because you are part of one beautiful, loving interconnected universe. This is how I see it (thanks to insight from many wisdom traditions): We are all part of one interconnected flow…
Overcoming the Undertow
Do you ever collapse into bed at the end of the day feeling just completely drained and disconnected? Ugh, I hate the feeling that something has drawn so much of my attention and energy that I’ve ended up not just…