Posted December 1, 2020 in Monthly News

Embrace Change: Keep Shedding

Even a spineless anthropod sheds what’s no longer useful and leaves it behind them. Are you not greater than they?” ~ Jason Versey

In my mind, December is always a month of musing about the past. I purposely am writing this article for the December 2020 Beyond Mastery newsletter on November 2 (before the […]

Posted October 31, 2020 in Monthly News

T.H.I.N.K.

I saw this quotation in a friend’s daily email, “Lord, keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.” My friend said it was from an email message. The author was not identified. It reminded me of Right Speech, in Buddhism, also called Wise Speech or Virtuous Speech.

According to Wikipedia, […]

Posted September 30, 2020 in Monthly News

Silent Minute

“There is no power on earth that can withstand the united cooperation on spiritual levels of men and women of goodwill everywhere. It is for this reason that the continued and widespread observance of the Silent Minute is of such vital importance in the interest of human welfare.” ~ Major Wellesley Tudor Pole

I received […]

Posted August 31, 2020 in Monthly News

Politics Aside

Gray and grey are both common spellings of the color between black and white. Gray is more frequent in American English, whereas grey is more common in British English.

During the week of the primaries, my sister put the following post on Facebook. I do not know who wrote these words, but I think […]

Posted July 31, 2020 in Monthly News

Hope and Resiliency

Nine-year-old Michaela Munyan, is CEO and sole seamstress of an unincorporated operation. Michaela had learned to sew hair scrunchies in an after-school program, so when her school was shut down because of the coronavirus, she did something constructive. She found a pattern and made a mask. Then she found a YouTube video about batch sewing […]

Posted June 30, 2020 in Monthly News

Independence Day

As the 4th of July comes around it looks as though social-distancing measures to mitigate risks of contracting COVID-19 are likely to be with us for a while. Although Marie Curie said “the way of progress is neither swift nor easy,” there are ways that we can all still let freedom ring on Independence Day.

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Posted May 31, 2020 in Monthly News

Willingness to Change

“Death isn’t quite as scary as the exhilarating terror of trying to accept life.”

Carlsbad, California, June 2006, “The Scariest Thing,”, AA Grapevine

Accepting life right now means adapting to a lot of change. By the first of June, in the past many years, I would have for a couple of months been comfortably settled […]

Posted April 30, 2020 in Monthly News

It's About Time

The way we experience time is not the same for everyone, and it changes for us moment-to-moment. NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming) is the study of the structure of experience, and our subjective experience relative to time is about as subjective as one can get….

This past December, January, and February our time “flew” while we were […]

Posted February 29, 2020 in Monthly News

Seeds of Light

Deep Spring Center Thought for Today Spread your love like grass seed. Move out. Don’t be afraid of potentially negative situations. See each as a place to grow more flowers, to cast your inner seeds out on this now fertile soil. For as this time of transition draws nearer, the soil is increasingly fertile. So […]