Maui – Polynesian Trickster God Excerpts from IT’S BETTER TO BE A TRICKSTER THAN A MARTYR by Elizabeth Gilbert “There is another way to be creative that does not make a fetish out of suffering. There is an older way, a richer way, a more generative way — the way human beings had been […]
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Father’s Day or Listen Up!
Although I did not speak with my dad this Father’s Day, the day itself was filled with great experiences. I unexpectedly joined in on a terrific workshop called ‘Your Spiritual Tool Kit’. Then I enjoyed an impromptu lunch with a friend at my home where we fixed up scrambled eggs with feta, smokey hash browns […]
Rinse and Repeat
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift…” ~ Albert Einstein Knowing this I ask again — what does it feel like to receive unconditional love? Now without labeling, without using words or employing images – or memory even – can […]
The Bigger Picture May Be Hard to Swallow
“It’s like Mahatma Gandhi gets put in jail and they give him a lice-infested uniform and tell him to clean the latrines, and it’s a whole mess. And he walks up to the head of the guards and he says, in total truth, “Thank you.” He’s not putting them on or up-leveling them. He’s saying, […]
The Rush of Simple Pleasure
I felt there again. It was so sweet, that connection to one’s I love. We had dinner, my dear friends and I. We discussed all sorts of real and true things about our daily lives, but nothing heavy, nothing too deep. Just regular sharing and regular joy. Their, now 2, baby’s care came first as […]
Going Deep
Everything starts with awareness. You can choose to be aware in any moment. Every moment is a new beginning. There are a myriad of moments and new beginnings in every day. This is one recipe for unlimited possibilities. On your mark. Get set. GO! What is your first reaction to these ideas? Tag You’re It!
Love & Power
I will give you my love, but I will not give you my power. I never made that distinction before! They are not the same and cleaving them like this feels true and right. For a brief moment I thought I had to get permission to love. But then I came to understand there is […]
A Call to the Universe
So I am having fun and they all say, “Just follow your passions and life will find you!” But I still have that longing, that requirement to be intimately engaged with one other person. To be joyfully entwined with them and all their interesting foibles and have them lovingly entwined with me and all my […]
What is Reasonable?
“Unknowing, if one can be open and vulnerable, will take us down to the very deeps of knowing, not informing the mind but coursing through the whole body, artery and vein–provided one can thrust aside what the world calls common sense, that popular lumpen wisdom that prevents the emerging of the numinous.” ~ Pamela Travers […]
A Walk in the Park
“I am great sun but you do not see me. I am your husband but you turn away. I am the captive but you do not free me. I am the captain but you do not obey. I am the truth but you do not believe me. I am that city where you will not […]
Allowing the Now
Was it courageous for Michael to choose not to seek treatment? Was it courageous for me to be by his side and help him as his illness ran the table? Not knowing if we had 6 weeks or 6 months – it was a time of uber conscious living in the Now.After making his choice, […]
