I know how to walk and chew gum at the same time. Hell, I can walk, chew gum, cook a 3 course meal while, consulting on a business plan, create coursework for clients and hug up on my grandbabies all at the same time. And yet, when I lost the love of my life, I […]
Location, Location, Location
I’ve always been able to read a map. My father taught me. He would show me the routes we would be taking on our family’s vacations, what to watch out for on the road and what we would be seeing along the way. Once, he showed me which roads we were going to take west […]
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 […]
To Voltaire with Love
“I don’t know how she can vote for ______ and simultaneously claim that I matter…” I have seen the same disappointment and realization I read in my friend’s post repeatedly over the past couple of years. A loved one, an old friend or a co-worker we respect shows up in our news feed, across […]
Don’t Dream It’s Over
I was on some kind of a day trip to the ocean. All I had with me was my pocketbook. Nothing more than ID, my phone and a little money – and the knowing that it was everything I owned. I have always loved the ocean, its boundless energy and forever splendor. It must […]
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’, […]
Perception is Everything
The other day, I was sitting in my car at a stop light when I saw out of my peripheral view a red car pulled up next to me. The music coming from the vehicle was loud enough to make me want to turn my head. I heard a soaring operatic voice in song and […]