This moment now. The now. Savoring the breeze after the rain. Going slow on a Monday afternoon. Contemplating. Always overthinking, overanalyzing, the what ifs, the where fors, the why, the how, the journalist asking. Always asking. What’s next? What do I need to learn? Where do I need to grow?Show … Continue reading →

4.25.20 It is a quiet morning here in the Land. Birds are chirping, singing their Love songs to one another. The day opens gently, warmly. The sun peeking out from soft pillows of clouds tells of a bright day, a day full of confident hope in a new arising. Now … Continue reading →

This writing life Every morning an offering, each time you sit down to write you open the portal of yourself to the Divine. And the Divine, in all its Divinity, enters in. You begin, words flowing, ideas streaming like a gushing river, unstoppable, unwilling to stop the flow. A one-way … Continue reading →

Here we are. Each in our own homes, staying connected through the telephone, the face time, the zoom meetings, zoom chats, zoom classes and classrooms all over the country, all over the world. Zoom, the latest stock buy. People will gravitate to their normal even in this new altered reality. … Continue reading →

Is this a time to turn our lives around? To look introspectively; really see who is important in your life, who contributes support, encourages, adds value? Does what we do to make a life light us up or deplete ourselves to the core? Is this purposefully placed, this seclusion, this … Continue reading →

Earth:  I am tired. I am depleted. I am exhausted of my used to be plentitudes of good nutrition, nutrient dense soil, clean air, clean water. I have been used. You have used me for your greed, for your destruction, for your very own peril. You have originally used me … Continue reading →

She said it was getting to be way too much. She had no other recourse than to send us all home. She continued, in order to have us try to stop hurting her, hurting her natural beauty, harming her animals, her plants and trees, her air and water and soil. … Continue reading →

Patterning.  Samskaras.  Conditioning.  Wholly unseen and unbeknownst to us are the patterns that construct our lives.  How are we patterning unconsciously?  What kinds of life choices are we continually choosing and repeating without awareness? Where in this big messy continual life of ours are we awake in the decision of … Continue reading →

We are all creatures of habit.  We enjoy the safety of our own cocoon.  Our familiarity feels comforting because we know the terrain, we anticipate the crags and smooth places.  We know the ebb and flow.   We feel, what appears reality but is really just illusion, that we are … Continue reading →

Happy Martin Luther King Day, On this auspicious day of days we celebrate this year with more zeal and awareness.  I enjoy listening to the speeches in Martin Luther King’s own words and feeling his message then as it applies now. On the same note, it is becoming more and … Continue reading →