What could be more intimate in life than what we put into our mouths, that then goes into our stomachs and enters our blood streams, cells, brains? Yet how little information do we have about it in general? I just watched the movie Food, Inc. It is a very important
I remember very clearly working a dream with my analyst when I lived in Los Angeles. In it I had walked up to a person in the dream and just shot him in the head (not someone I knew in real life). I sheepishly confessed the dream, thinking it was
There is uncertainty everywhere about how to make a living that feels stable. I need answers to that question. I would be willing to go anywhere that I might be called to in order to make a living that will give me the stability that I need growing older. But
Chelsea Clinton’s wedding is going to cost $5 million. There must be a point to such lavishness in the world, but I struggle to understand it at this moment and it makes me sad. I wonder what that amount of money would do to improve the lives of the 1.2
I just listened to Nightly News on NBC, which gave a report about the movie Inception, in theaters now, saying it has sparked much general discussion about the topic of dreams. I’m so excited about the developing interest, even if there is a lot of misinformation that gets dispersed by
Work of the eyes is done, now
go and do heart work
on all the images imprisoned within you; for you
overpowered them: but even now you don’t know them.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
I’m sorting myself out these last few days after travels in Africa and stops on the way home, slowing reintegrating myself back
Hauntings of unfulfilled longings, failures, things not yet mastered or achieved, life’s accusations, the disowned and darkest parts of the self that need our recognition, these are like bats flying about in my mind and I think of the quote from Rainer Maria Rilke in one of his Elegies, this
Memories, like dreams, come for a purpose. As the mind wanders suddenly a memory comes up sharply. I have noticed upon a number of occasions recently that when I ask “why” the memory has surfaced rather than just let it float down the river with the rest of my mind’s
Beyond the list, is list-ening. I have been constructing detailed lists of all of the things to do now as I jump back into the saddle after travels. But I find I’m in that dream where you try hard to move a muscle and you can’t, do you know that
After weeks and weeks of being with people, I who lives and is alone a radically large percentage of the time, am again alone with my own psyche in the wild forest. When a cheetah is engaged with another animal, focus and intensity are directed externally; it’s clear, strong, clean,