The Gifts of the Autumn Years

September 28, 2011

With the arrival of autumn, I wel­come the return of what has always been my favorite sea­son. There is some­thing poignant about savor­ing the wan­ing days of light and warmth as the last long days of sum­mer take their final bow and win­ter appears on the dis­tant hori­zon. Like drink­ing the last drops of a […]

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A Healing For America

September 28, 2011

(This arti­cle was orig­i­nally pub­lished at the Huff­in­g­ton Post on 9.11.11.) Some­thing pow­er­ful has emerged from the scar in the earth for­merly known as ground zero. For the past 10 years, this site has slowly been trans­formed from the smol­der­ing, dark pit of destruc­tion it became on that fate­ful day in Sep­tem­ber, to a place […]

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In Praise of the “Juicy” Crone

August 9, 2011

Last week, while shop­ping for shoes (a favorite pas­time of mine), I ran into a friend I hadn’t seen in quite some time. No acci­dent that we met at a shoe store, since shoe shop­ping is a uni­ver­sal require­ment for all women. Yes, ladies? Laura and I stood and chat­ted a bit, laugh­ing and reminiscing […]

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Are We Being Good Ancestors?

August 2, 2011

Look­ing out across the social, cul­ture, eco­nomic and polit­i­cal land­scape of Amer­ica today, I’m reminded of an obser­va­tion by Dr. Jonas Salk, polio vac­cine pio­neer, who said the most impor­tant ques­tion we can ask our­selves is “Are we being good ances­tors?” At the indi­vid­ual level, con­sid­er­ing the impact of your per­sonal val­ues and the choices […]

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The Problem with Being Honest

July 21, 2011

Most peo­ple, when queried, place hon­esty high on the list of their core val­ues. We believe that being hon­est with our­selves and with oth­ers is cru­cial to hav­ing rela­tion­ships work effec­tively. And right­fully so! Who wants to be in a rela­tion­ship with some­one who is a known liar? Who wants to be with some­one they […]

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The Visionary’s Dilemma

July 13, 2011

This piece res­onates with my own expe­ri­ence of danc­ing between my vision and “tak­ing care of busi­ness” at a prac­ti­cal level. It’s the age old dilemma every cre­atively inspired per­son con­fronts: being true to what calls us to embrace a greater vision, and man­age the every­day nitty gritty demands of life. Thanks to Bikkhu Bodhi […]

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Paving A Path To Your Personal Liberation

July 6, 2011

Your spirit’s com­fort zone is the infi­nite and eter­nal. Any­thing else is a path to anx­i­ety and fear. Mar­i­anne Williamson This week, we gath­ered in town squares across the coun­try to cel­e­brate our nation’s birth­day. We gath­ered in churches and syn­a­gogues, marched in parades and stood on curbs wav­ing flags. We went to county fairs, rode […]

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Going With The Flow of the Soul

July 1, 2011

As I’ve writ­ten so many times in pre­vi­ous posts, the soul has its own agenda, and we’d best align with it, for like it or not, the soul will have its way with us. The soul, as our ani­mat­ing life force, will steer our lives in the direc­tion it intends in order to ful­fill its […]

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Healing The Wounds of Your Ancestors

May 18, 2011

“You are a link in a chain of cau­sa­tion that stretches before and after your life for a thou­sand gen­er­a­tions.” –Rev. Chris Michaels, found­ing min­is­ter of the Cen­ter for Spir­i­tual Liv­ing, Kansas City, Mo. If you were born in Amer­ica, some­where in your lin­eage, you can trace back to ances­tors who came here from a foreign […]

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The Revelation

April 6, 2011

She stood at the edge of heaven and earth Look­ing down on the river below her It was filled with the car­nage of bro­ken hearts And the suf­fer­ing of souls who would know her. A bright, eager spirit in spite of it all So will­ing and anx­ious to go To dis­cover the lessons await­ing her there […]

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