This is the sec­ond part in our series on essen­tial val­ues for liv­ing a trans­formed life. My inten­tion in writ­ing this series is to engage in a con­ver­sa­tion around the promise and the pos­si­bil­ity of the time in which we live, this year of 2012, and whether or not this will be a time of […]

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In my post last week, “2012: Ush­er­ing in the 100th Mon­key,” I iden­ti­fied 10 val­ues essen­tial for align­ing one’s con­scious­ness with the prin­ci­ples of trans­for­ma­tion. In that these val­ues do not con­sti­tute an exhaus­tive list, I invited read­ers to include oth­ers and I’ve even thought of a few more of my own. In the next few […]

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2012: Ushering In The 100th Monkey?

January 5, 2012

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. It was a time for reach­ing out and a time for let­ting go. It was a time of beauty and a time of hor­ror. It was a time of hope and a time of despair. It was a time of war and a […]

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Winter Solstice: A Paean To The Pregnant Darkness

December 20, 2011

Sol­stice = Standing-Still-Sun Dec. 21st, we enter the belly of the night. Win­ter Sol­stice: We come to the por­tal that sep­a­rates dark­ness from light. Stand­ing in this arch of time where Earth takes a breath before fac­ing us back towards the sun, we too, take a breath, turn inward, pause in this moment of full­ness and […]

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A Modern Day Christmas Carol

December 19, 2011

Have you seen it yet this year? For what would the Christ­mas sea­son be with­out the yearly air­ing of Charles Dicken’s A Christ­mas Carol? Chan­nel surf­ing last week, I came across one of my favorite pro­duc­tions of this age-old story, with George C. Scott in the role of Scrooge. And although I’ve watched the film […]

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The Only Gift That Matters

December 8, 2011

When the going gets tough, the tough go shop­ping. Isn’t that what we’ve always been taught? Isn’t that the Amer­i­can way? That’s what we were instructed to do back in 2001, as a response to the ter­ror­ist attacks of Sept. 11. Remem­ber? Shop­ping became our patri­otic duty. It was our way of shak­ing off the shock […]

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Confessions of A Recovering Holiday Shopper: 2011 Update

November 30, 2011

This is an update to an arti­cle I posted last year dur­ing my third con­sec­u­tive year as a recov­er­ing hol­i­day shop­per. You can read the orig­i­nal arti­cle here. Hav­ing cel­e­brated “Buy Noth­ing Day” on Black Fri­day last week instead of brav­ing poten­tial assaults of pep­per spray at Wal-Mart or even worse, I now am faced […]

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Occupy Planet Earth: The Great Rising Up

October 25, 2011

First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you Then they fight you. Then you win. – Mahatma Gandhi It’s time. One might even say it’s past time. One might even say it’s long over­due past time. But actu­ally, the time is per­fect. The time is ripe. The time is now. Something’s hap­pen­ing and it’s happening […]

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Gone Too Soon

October 5, 2011

Steve Jobs left this earthly plane today. He leaves behind a cav­ernous gap that only his cre­ative genius could fill. Thank you, Steve, for fol­low­ing your heart and never giv­ing up on your dream. God­speed, dear Steve. I know for sure of one angel who’s wait­ing for you. My father, Clif­ford Bundy, died 18 years ago […]

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One Day On Earth: 11/11/11

October 1, 2011

Mark your cal­en­dars for Nov. 11, 2011 — 11.11.11. Some­thing amaz­ing is going to hap­pen on that day, and you can be a part of it. Imag­ine you could get a glimpse of human­ity, every­where on the planet, all at the same time. Imag­ine you could look across the land­scape of the globe and see a […]

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