There is a lot of buzz these days about self-care. It’s been a personal pursuit for decades and my professional work for the last few years. I’m always upfront that Self-Care is Self-Love and it’s very necessary. But I meet a lot of folks that are unsure or limit what self-care could look like. Yes, […]
Mindfulness
Transition is its own time
I was talking with a friend about letting go, talking of releasing that which no longer serves. Then I realized what was coming up. Lent. Soon I’d have to look at what I am choosing to relinquish. Lent is coming up and it’s time to give something up. While I’m a recovering catholic, I never […]
Sonnet XVII: I Do Not Love You
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light […]
MLK Remembered
In celebration of a great heartwise mystic, Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail (full transcript) 16 April 1963 My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.” Seldom do I pause to answer criticism […]
Being With What Is
Mindfulness. Equanimity. Being With What Is. Being with what is – is IN. It sounds so cool, being heart centered. The words are so beautifully pumped full of light and vitality. Except when we’re smack dab in the middle of whatever shit-storm the “what is” is about. Sifting through the half-truths, the misbeliefs, the shouldas’, […]