Life has put me into a bit of a holding pattern right now, and I am noticing what it is doing to my nervous system. There is an urgency to get on with things rather than just be… be here… be still… be settled… peaceful… patient. I feel
“The world offers itself to your imagination, like the wild geese, harsh and exciting,” poet Mary Oliver says in her gorgeous poem called Wild Geese. The only failure in life is the failure of imagination, and of persistence and courage to follow it. Life lays banquets of possibilities before us
Today I saw the movie Black Swan with Natalie Portman in the starring role of a ballerina who is cast in the role of Swan Queen in Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet. A young woman who has strived hard for perfection in her dance, and in her person, by being cast in the
Say good-bye to old sorrows, conflicts, ways of thinking and being that don’t want to come forward into 2011 with you. Say good-bye to fear, to barriers you have put up to hold out love, to habitual ways of seeing and interpreting loved ones. Say good-bye to limiting self-concepts, to
At the core of every bit of the chaos and insanity, violence and hardship we experience as humans I believe that Love is the final, fundamental and only truth. I don’t say this naively. This is not some mystic dogma. It is hard-won for me to know this, say it
Holiday times of year, such as this one, Christmas, that Christians and most of the Western world celebrate, often bring with them an instinctive migratory impulse – to brave the difficulties, uncertainties, expenses and rigors of travel so that we can be with the ones who we have known from
Reminders come to me on this Christmas Eve that when Love incarnates in this world, it will be homeless and already sought for destruction. The manger for Christ’s birth is a sweet image, but a harsh reality too. The arrival of the Magi was already intercepted by a king who
Love was born at Christmas. This is a common phrase, often felt and experienced in certain ways, but lost to us in general I believe as to its actual truth.
Earth is but a cloak that hides heaven, a thin veil. Because earth seems dense and imperfect, full of trouble and
For those who don’t follow these things, a total eclipse of the moon happened exactly on the day of the winter solstice this year, yesterday. It was also a full moon. The last time a total eclipse happened on the winter solstice was 456 years ago. This is a big
I have written in the last couple of weeks about recent experiences and reflections about those on the other side of the veil living in the world of the dead. These events have convinced me that the dead are close, present and actually quite alive . In the last two days