Create the Life You Desire
Last week a friend and I were talking about how it may be a good idea to stay put for a while. Cocoon and evolve were his wise words. It was days before “social distancing” became a common term, days before distancing became shelter-in-place mandates. The shelves in Whole Foods were fully stocked. People looked … Read more
There are secrets hidden in old myth stories and fairy tales. Clues about the nature of reality and insight into our humanity. The tricky part is finding the time in our busy modern day life to read the stories and extract their nectar. Just like the secret to spending time in nature, the old myths … Read more
As I attempt to tackle this lofty topic, I have some reservations. Writing about how to love nature is dangerous territory. The risks of spiritual pomposity or airy-fairy Walden-esque prose gather all around, waiting for the first chance to jump onto the page and turn this article into utter fluff. There is also the … Read more
Anyone who has ever devoted the full intensity of honed human attention to a task knows that even the most mundane act has something deeper to offer. When we stay present with whatever we are doing, even a simple chore is an opportunity for transformation . This particular example of how chores can reveal hidden … Read more
The greatest threat to our freedom is so close to us we often miss it. Picture yourself fast asleep. Someone is asking you to wake up, but you are deep in a dream, and the call to awaken is experienced as a vague awareness that something is not quite right. We are in that dream, … Read more