I’m trying to go into the zone, the Zen zone, to send light and strong energy to Washington D.C. right now on this election day, while all of the shifting of power and excitement over everything is raging. Rather than twittering endlessly, send some peace to the nervous system of
There is wisdom that says that anything we do is not about the destination, it is about the journey. This has become cliché’ but like most clichés they are so because they are true. When they are realized there is a different respect for the words.
I have seen it so
What we think of as magic – usually events that we believe transcend or exceed the laws of nature and universe – is actually what the universe is made of. The rational mind as it developed set up ideas that natural laws are how things are, laws of physics do
I have enjoyed the coverage this weekend of Jon Stewart and the Daily Show’s efforts to restore sanity at their huge rally this weekend on the Washington Mall. We hear in the media about the radical voices, often ridiculously expressed, coming from the left and the right. The media magnetizes
In the middle of big sorrows and complexities in my life right now, the experience I keep having, and the word for that experience, is Grace. There are showers of grace flowing. The universe is made of such elegant grace. When the channels open up to sense it more fully,
Strength of mind does not come from transcendence from matter, but “inscendence” into matter. There are times when the body takes over and tells what we think of as “mind” what is really going on. The body knows, it tells the truth. “Mind over matter” is in one sense another
Ancient Goddess of wisdom and war, born from the head of Zeus after he swallowed her mother, this goddess is a powerful protector and inspirer for those on particular kinds of quests. She has showed up in my dreams recently in her guises to let me know she is watching, available,
In the Arthurian legend of Parsifal’s quest for the grail, his classic question to the Grail King was, in some versions of the legend “what ails thee?” And in others it was, “whom does the grail serve.” Parsifal’s quest is everyman’s quest. “What ails thee?” is the question that a knight
I want to tell this story because for two days every time I think about it I have burst into laughter out loud, having to work to suppress it in public so I don’t disturb the masses with spontaneous belly laughing. Yesterday my neighbor was on his roof working on
I got to play with my 3-year-old neighbor Hannah today. She’s getting a reputation now – a friend at the recent conference from which I just returned spoke of Hannah with respect and appreciation after reading of her on my blog. I love that she’s touching the wider world from