It’s 7:15am. You’re rushing out the door. Coffee in hand. Your spare hand is grabbing a hard boiled egg. Quick glance in the mirror. Oh no, that shirt looks wrinkled. And… are you kidding me? Look at that hair. Ugh. I’m going to be late. I don’t have time for this. You know the drill…. Continue reading…
You plant a seed. You water it. You tend to it. Or maybe you forget all about it. But the one thing I’m pretty sure you don’t do, is rush out the next morning and dig it up to see if it’s growing. Is it growing? Is it growing now? (To be said with the… Continue reading…
Titanic…. Lord of the Rings… Gone with the Wind… Sweeping, epic stories with sweeping epic music swelling, crashing and trickling in the background. That music cajoles us, leads us forward, amplifies our emotional response. It engages us; teases us; draws us in. All we have to do is hear the beginning notes of “scary” music… Continue reading…
How it can be that we’re just a few days away from Thanksgiving is beyond me. I’m sure our gorgeous weather this Fall hasn’t helped in terms of tricking my mind into believing that it’s sooner than it really is—I think I may be stuck back in time somewhere around September 12th, give or take…. Continue reading…
Some ideas just won’t go away. For me, at this junction in my life, it’s Peru. I’m thinking about retreats for 2017 and from the minute I had the thought “I think I’ll do some retreats in 2017” Peru has been tugging at my sleeve. Picture Shrek… donkey jumping up and down… “Pick me! Me!… Continue reading…
Dear Adult Self (fill in your name), Hi, it’s me… your 12 year old self. Remember me? I know you’re super busy and all but I’m the one who used to run til my lungs were on fire when we played tag down at the field. Remember me? I used to throw my whole heart… Continue reading…
A 2000 year old tree. I stood at its foot, looked up and gawked. Literally. 2,000 years old, 300 feet tall and 2 million pounds. Not too shabby. Giant Sequoias—whole groves of them. They grow the equivalent of a full 60ft tree every year. Some of them have bark that’s 30 feet thick. And that’s… Continue reading…
“You should be ashamed of yourself.” Shame is a deep-seated, ingrained emotion that was cultivated for many of us very early on in our lives. It is a debilitating emotion and one that we tend to feed rather than starve. A bit like a snowball turning into a full fledged avalanche. Interestingly when I did… Continue reading…
It happens before we even realize it’s happening. It happens right below our conscious awareness. And before we know it we’re off track–and not the “good, fun, adventure of a life time” kind of off track.
A native American Indian walks out and looks up at the sky–“AHHHHHH….. father sun.” He feels connected to All That Is. He feels spiritually open and supported. Life is good. A Wall Street executive walks out of his office for lunch. He looks up at the sky, sees the sun, grumbles about the heat, puts… Continue reading…
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