Happy? Happy… Happy!!!
The theme of Happiness has been popping up (like popcorn!) in the last while. In his most basic teachings the Dalai Lama says, ” All human beings are the same. “We all want happiness and do not want suffering.” Well yes, we might say, but what is happiness, where does it come from…We can’t buy it, but...
Beyond Popcorn
A lot has been happening on the self-discovery, personal growth, soul and spirit front in the last few months. A roller coaster for sure. Illuminating, sobering, exciting, and I’m happy to say, deeply transformative! The most recent chunk of work was around my habitual pattern of agitation — packing too much in, long to-do lists, a...
Life and Death
Happy May Day! The First of May is celebrated widely and diversely. The Writers Almanac surveys the many different ways May 1st is, and has been, observed across the years. In addition to celebrating, with open heart and all my senses, the earth’s great efflorescing, I like to mark the march of seasons. (Effloresce was my word of the day today. It’s a...
“Happy New Year”? Yes!
We’re a week into 2014. I like the sound of it: Twenty Fourteen. Kind of even, balanced. Still young, promising, but no longer a baby millennium, as in 2003, or so. We’re into it now! The words Happy New Year still roll off my tongue in greeting. I’ve completed my year-end practice of composing a...
