Cultivate Kindness: It Changes Us and Everything
In Challenging Times, Kindness and Awareness Light the Way As I reflect on our continuing challenging circumstances—the great unknowns and disasters of climate disruption, horrific and illegal behaviors by elected officials, economic craziness, and much more—several things are clear. First, compassion, care, and on-the-ground help are desperately needed for masses of people, almost always the...
Summer Solstice Reflections: Alignment, Acceptance, and Empowered Change
Summer Solstice is here! Hello dear family and friends, colleagues, fellow travelers… All of us are welcome on this journey, currently so very wild, exciting, pivotal, critical, scary, yet full of potential…. If you’re inclined to skip the notes below about Summer Solstice or Alignment, feel free to jump to the video at the end,...
Curiosity leads to Awe, then to The Mystery!
When I came across this inspirational quote from Einstein, “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvellous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries to comprehend only...
The Perfect Teacher Is What’s Happening Right Now!
The perfect teacher is what’s happening right now! Just today, as some unexpected news came into my inbox, right in that moment, I felt agitated and annoyed. What’s happening right now is the perfect teacher? That’s often very hard to accept..let alone be open to learning and changing! Those of you on a journey...
Finding Joy in the Ordinary is Magical
“Finding joy in the ordinary is magical” is actually an understatement. I am an Enneagram Type 7 and a curse of this Type is to always be looking for something better, something higher, something bigger… something new, greener, or more exciting…. This drivenness, leading to lots of future focus and endless planning, comes from the old belief...
Pain and Gain
Pain and Gain….Hmmmm. One of the pleasures of my trip to Austria, besides the glorious, exhilarating snowfall we had, was taking grandkids, Lilly and Nick, to school in the morning. The next to last day however, as Lilly and I were navigating down the steep hill to her Kindergarten, I slipped on a patch of...
Where We Want to Go — We are already there!
“The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is ‘look under foot.’ You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.” John Burroughs “If we are not totally blind, that which we are seeking is already here. This is it.” Alan Watts One essay in BECOMING is entitled...
