“You can create anything, but you can’t create everything.” —Anodea Judith We have so many options today that it can be overwhelming. Opportunities abound: Which video to watch? Which book to read? Which workshop to attend? And most important, Which of my many dreams do I focus on...
With all the pops of the champagne corks, 2018 is out the gate and off to a running start. While the daily news tells us everything is unraveling to new levels of low, we need people more than ever who can wake up, step up, and...
Sex and the Sexes: What’s going on here? It’s pretty clear the issue of sexual harassment is rearing its head from every corner of society. Both women and men have been putting up with this nonsense for far too long and it’s time we got to the bottom...
We all know addiction is destructive. Not only do addicts face the slippery slope of being taken over by their habit, but everyone around them suffers as well. Alcoholics destroy families with anger. Heroin addicts engage in crimes they wouldn’t otherwise commit, just to get their...
It is with a heavy heart that I write today, as the toll keeps mounting on the constant tragedies of hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and fires. My own home in northern California is OK, but all around me the fires are burning, people are running for...
OK, I admit it. I have an agenda. I always have, underneath everything I say and do. I want to be part of a movement to create Heaven on Earth. I believe that’s what we’re here for, what we’re here to learn. I know it’s possible. We’ve...
While the tragedy in Texas is the opposite of what we call perfection, it does meet the criteria of a perfect storm: when a number of things occur independently to heighten the potential of disaster. When an area populated by millions floods to the extent that is...
We do not become enlightened by seeking after figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. —Carl Jung I’m sure you all know there is a full solar eclipse on Monday, August 21st that will travel across the whole USA from west to east, starting in...
It’s important to me to celebrate the days that mark the changing of the seasons. Solstices, Equinoxes, and the cross quarter days between them, signal a time to remember the ancient tides of our ancestors, tides that still herald the rise and fall of archetypal...
When the first Earth Day occurred, back in 1970, the idea that the environment could be threatened was a novel concept. We saw smokestacks as a sign of industrial progress. We poured leaded gasoline into oversize Cadillacs. Pesticides and herbicides were seen as serving the...