Rx For The Weary Soul: Have Yourself A “Lily Day”

May 17, 2010

                                                                   Thanks to Anne Nay­lor for this won­der­ful post on How To Cel­e­brate A Lily Day, reprinted here with her per­mis­sion.  You’ll find Anne’s […]

  • Share/Bookmark
Read the full article →

What Is Your Soul’s Journey?

May 14, 2010

                                                               Over the course of the past decade, I’ve been blessed to expe­ri­ence a num­ber of Shamanic jour­neys, taken under the guid­ance of both Amer­i­can and […]

  • Share/Bookmark
Read the full article →

Solitude For Extroverts: Medicine For The Weary Soul

May 11, 2010

                                             For extro­verts and those who love them, live with them or oth­er­wise have to deal with them (which is just about every­one else) .….…  It’s a funny thing about extro­verts: we give the impres­sion that […]

  • Share/Bookmark
Read the full article →

What Is Your Place In The World?

May 4, 2010

                                                            “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with this one, wild and precious life?”                        […]

  • Share/Bookmark
Read the full article →

Life Fitness Boot Camp– Starts May 18

April 27, 2010

 Sev­eral friends of mine have attended fit­ness “boot camps”, intense work-outs, usu­ally 6x/week for 6 weeks, intended to help them get their bod­ies fit and toned.  I’m all for fit and toned!  Which led me to won­der, what about a pro­gram to help peo­ple get their lives “fit and toned”?  Why not offer a “Life Fitness […]

  • Share/Bookmark
Read the full article →

The Power Of Conscious Forgetting– Part 1

April 22, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Recently, I came across the fol­low­ing quote from the best sell­ing book, Women Who Run With The Wolves, writ­ten by Jun­gian ana­lyst, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes. Dr. Estes is talk­ing about the phe­nom­e­non she calls, “Con­scious For­get­ting”: “To for­get means to aver from mem­ory, to refuse to dwell-in other words, to let go, […]

  • Share/Bookmark
Read the full article →

Letter To A Young Activist During Troubled Times– by Dr. Clarissa Pinkoles Estes

April 12, 2010

Cover of Women Who Run with the Wolves Dr. Clarissa Pinkoles Estes, author of Women Who Run With The Wolves, wrote this in 2003. I reprint it here as a source of encour­age­ment and remem­brance for us all, recall­ing how it touched me when I first read it seven years ago.  It still res­onates today. My […]

  • Share/Bookmark
Read the full article →

Contemplating Miracles

April 1, 2010

I began think­ing about mir­a­cles this week, while walk­ing in the hills above my home. The return of spring is always an amaz­ing event for me.  Even though I no longer live in a harsh win­ter cli­mate, the San Fran­cisco Bay Area win­ters are cold enough for me and after the par­tic­u­larly wet win­ter this year, […]

  • Share/Bookmark
Read the full article →

An Unlikely Hero

March 25, 2010

A friend sent me this story today. I’ve heard it before and per­haps so have you. Wayne Dyer uses this story in his pre­sen­ta­tions and intro­duces as a “true story”. Whether it’s true or not, the spirit of this story speaks to a deeper truth about human beings. And so in the con­text of my […]

  • Share/Bookmark
Read the full article →

Does Life Always Conspire For Our Highest Good?

March 23, 2010

“Warn­ing: Objects in mir­ror may be larger/smaller/closer/farther away/than they appear.” All is not nec­es­sar­ily as it seems to be. You might think you know your­self. But I sus­pect, that like most peo­ple, you’ve kept your true iden­tity a secret, not only to the larger world around you, but espe­cially to y-o-u. In order to nav­i­gate in the […]

  • Share/Bookmark
Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →