All Roads Lead to Somewhere

The headline: The first debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden deteriorated into a bitter showdown …

It would be so easy for me to pass judgment about how unskillful bitter exchanges are were it not for the fact that I had just let myself get triggered by a friend I care […]

Poetry – Brandon Leake’s Got Talent!

Anyone who lives art knows that psychoanalysis has no monopoly on the power to heal.

Art and poetry have always been altering our ways of sensing and feeling — that is to say, altering the human body.

~Norman O. Brown

Reality TV, like everything else in this human incarnation, has its ups and down, […]

Correction in Big Fires post

OOPS…. A mistype of the most important kind.

Several individuals expressed feeling depressed with all that is going on right now. I mentioned how the uncertainty shifts us into the SYMPATHETIC nervous system – fight, flight, or freeze.

Some people are said to look for love in all the wrong places. Trying to […]

Big Fires

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

~ John Burroughs

Several individuals expressed feeling depressed with all that is going on right now. I mentioned how the uncertainty shifts us into the sympathetic nervous system – fight, flight, or freeze.

Some people are said […]

New Frontiers

Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate department of life, the penthouse of existence.

But rightly understood, it is a vital awareness that pervades all realms of our being.

~Br. David Steindl-Rast

Today, it is this beautiful planet we call home that calls us home to our hearts. We […]

Bless the Sea Snakes

Joel has been having ongoing challenges with his gmail account. I reached out to Rebecca, our wonderful webmaster, and she is on it. When he wrote saying, “I think I must have been cursed by the gods of the internet. What did I ever do to them….” I wrote back:

“Well, bless the sea […]

Ambiguous Gain

My sister and I are having a wonderful experience with the Magic Eye calendar for 2020. We meet via a video call on the first day of each month and we turn the page together. We love the sharing: looking; not seeing; relaxing; looking again; seeing. That is how the process works!

September was a […]

Fly Eyes

Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other. ~ Lewis Thomas

I started having flies in the master bathroom. We pretty quickly figured out where they were getting in, but it took me a while to catch and release them all. […]

Meddling Mind

The world is changed by your example, not your opinion. ~ Paul Coehlo

As I was feeling befuddled by boredom, I happened upon a dharma talk by Kyoun Sokuzan. Sokuzan, a fully transmitted monk in the Soto Zen Buddhist tradition, was speaking about meddling mind.

Adyashanti (born Steven Gray in 1962), an American spiritual […]

What Are You Doing Today?

The farmer may only be planting a seed, but if he opens his eyes he is feeding the whole world. ~ Omaha Bee

This opening quotation kicked off a precious story about a three-person construction crew who was approached by a man asking what each was doing. The first said he was working for pittance […]