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
Creative Perception
I prefer creative chaos to senseless chaos. But it can be hard to tell the difference between the two! Our creative perception, the ability to perceive the creative force unfolding so that we can align ourselves with it, makes all…
A dream becoming reality
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.
Prosperity
How does praying for prosperity fit into closing the gap between rich and poor?
What I’ve Learned From Icy Puddles
I also am embracing my slow, icy puddle spring walks as training sessions for moving through chaotic times of transition. Here is what I’m learning.
Collective Impact
Wow, am I happy to be on the other side of the polar vortex of last week. Not only the weather, but also an untimely bout of food poisoning, led me to cancel or postpone all my classes last week.…
Our Automatic Reactions
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.
An Uncovering
Particle respirator masks were an unexpected addition to my Thanksgiving in California. Even thought we were 200 miles away from the devastating fire around Paradise the air quality was dangerously unhealthy. The media frequently referred to the California wild fires…
You Can Do Hard Things
Back to School is in the air. Summer always goes too quickly but I’m honestly happy to be returning to the school routine. Even before I had a child every fall I felt the back to school spirit. After all…
Receiving and Healing
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…