Periodic writings and updates
Tuesday March 24, 2020
It’s not about me. This has been my mantra for decades. We personalize everything, making it about the I/Me/My, as if the world spins around the Self. It’s natural, for sure…we all experience life through this Me. However, this mantra is a reminder that life has been flowing for billions of years, births…
Read PostThursday March 19, 2020
Dear Sangha, Thank the shining stars for YOU! Community is one of the biggest gifts we have in times of crisis. As we face this global challenge—the broad panic, the shifts to our lives as we know them, our individual confrontations with the unknown—it’s important to remember that we also have a global community…one as…
Read PostThursday March 5, 2020
On Love & Pain I love you so much it hurts. This sentiment has crossed lips for as long as humans have been “falling” in love. Poets, spiritual teachers, lyricists—all who write on the human condition—have spoken to the pain of love. Let’s consider the term falling: giving into a gravity we have no control of, a…
Read PostWednesday February 19, 2020
A sacred temple must be maintained. If it isn’t, it’s no longer sacred, since it’s precisely the acts of attention and care that make a space so. If left to sit unattended, the inevitable decay and disrepair take over. Order returns to chaos, the great rule of life. And as with temples, so with bodies….
Read PostFriday January 24, 2020
Intention, simply, is a gathering of energy and turning of attention. It’s based in the present moment but it has one eye gazing toward the future. Intentions hold dreams, hopes, and in many cases, the expectations we hold of ourselves and of this life that is unfolding through us. When used wisely, intentions are the…
Read PostTuesday January 21, 2020
The end of anything marks the beginning of something else. To honor these moments (arbitrary as they may be) and take the time to end well sets up the stage for how we will begin… or how we will begin again. As we tip from one year into the next—one decade into the next—we have…
Read PostWednesday December 4, 2019
Unwrapping your gifts: Healing family wounds Perhaps you’ve had the experience of opening a wrapped gift slowly—taking the lid off the box, pushing the tissue aside, only to discover something you didn’t even know you wanted, right there in front of you. This is how I think about what it means to unwrap a self…
Read PostWednesday November 13, 2019
I need more time, more money, more practice, more quiet, more travel, more… I don’t give enough to my kids, to my work, to my community, to the planet, to… Do these lists sound familiar to you? The things you “lack”? The things you’re “failing” to do? These lists—the LACK LIST, the FAILURE LIST—have such…
Read PostFriday October 18, 2019
Raise your hand if you’re in training to win the busy Olympics. My arm is firmly up in the air; how about yours? Busy is the new competitive sport and the newest emotion in our repertoire—right alongside anger, fear, disgust, happiness, sadness, surprise. In fact, I bet it’s the most common response you receive when…
Read PostTuesday September 17, 2019
All my intentions, all my best-laid plans… All my commitments get tested through time. Time is the great equalizer that invites me to begin again and again. As a human, I know what’s generally good for me, what would support my most vital thriving self; and yet, do I always make those choices? Nope. Do…
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