Last week someone asked me point blank and without context, “What is your relationship to this land?” I had the very uncomfortable feeling that I was being tested. I had just met this person. I was surprised by how intimate…
Here’s to the moment when something you practice becomes
something you live effortlessly. Here’s to all of us who are practicing in many different ways the foundations for a future in which all life flourishes. May we all experience the joy of that vision becoming a reality.
It is difficult to pursue wholeness and meaning within our individualistic culture. I have always wanted spirituality to be about helping me become more complete; more of a perfect instrument for the expression of the Divine. The church that raised me succeeded in instilling this longing in me, but not with helping me satisfy it.
It turns out the reason it is so hard to rationalize with my automatic responses is because rationalization and automatic responses happen in two different parts of the brain.
I took my daughter to hear Taylor Swift the other week. The biggest surprise from the experience (other than the mere fact of me going) was how good I felt the next day. While parts of the whole experience felt…
My father is visiting and one of the great benefits is that he fixes things for me. He has glued the bench, hammered the loose shingle, and applied WD-40 to the sticky lock. I get a little thrill out of…
For more than two and half years I have been walking closely with my friend Michael as he lives with brain cancer. Recently he shared his health adventure as part of a healing stories project. I was so moved by…
Water is making the headlines big time right now. Catastrophic storms. Severe droughts. Water is giving fearsome expression to the changes in our climate. Climate can be such a vague notion. But water is tangible. Water is my way of…
You may have noticed that “in-the-bones” understanding is a favorite phrase of mine. Intellectual knowledge gradually seeps into my body. As knowledge penetrates “the bones” it becomes spiritual understanding. And like our skeleton, this spiritual understanding creates a structure that…
A year ago I had the unique opportunity to celebrate the regenerative mystery of Easter in Lesvos, Greece. Just outside of the village of Molyvos I attended Laura Shannon’s Greek Easter Dance and Culture Seminar. Laura is my guiding teacher;…