Passion!
Where do you feel passion — in your soul and spirit? In your body and mind? On my roller blade this morning I was really alive. I felt and took in the clear air; the exhilaration of the flow and movement; the pleasure of seeing water birds and the glint of sun on the waves… As I rolled along, I mused about...
Improve the World and/or Enjoy It?
None other than E. B. White, wise, clever fellow, and one of my favorite writers, said, “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” I’m on my own for a week, Mike is attending a Guitar...
Meet Your Maker! Connect with the Earth!
As the days lengthen and warm up, we revel in all the new growth, some of us start planting flowers and veggies, and we all look forward to the strawberries, the chard and kale, the fresh parsley and basil that we can grow, even in very small spaces, such as balcony gardens! It’s also the...
How We 99% Can Help…
I was down at the Vancouver Art Gallery Occupy Vancouver site last Friday for some time, and had the opportunity to attend a General Assembly (GA), which is held each day at 1:00 (and again at 7 in the evening as well), for an hour. It was quite cold and pounding rain at times, but...
Passion, Risk, and Adventure
Themes addressed in Becoming include transformation, reinventing ourselves, control and surrender. Sara Lawrence Lightfoot talks about these topics as well in her new book THE THIRD CHAPTER: PASSION, RISK, AND ADVENTURE IN THE 25 YEARS AFTER 50. “All of us at this point, to some degree, are on a search for meaningfulness, for purposefulness,” she...