Occupy Your Own Damn Life

What if the most revolutionary thing you could do was to commit to living a fully conscious life?  Some argue the Occupy Movement is a threat not because people mobilized, but because people realized they have voices and those voices were being heard.  The somnambulist masses have awoken. (yes that’s Read more…

39.5 an update

I introduced the concept of Lent to my nephews over supper.  I hadn’t signed off on either wheat or meditation although I had abstained from the former and practiced the latter that morning just to cover my bases.  The boys were eagerly engaged in the debate with Number 1 proposing Read more…

forty days

We’re an hour into Lent on the East Coast.  I am not Catholic but for three days I’ve been racking my brains about what to give up for the next forty.  Over the years I’ve given up tangible things like wine, chocolate, and coffee.  I’ve tried intangible concepts like giving up Read more…

lesson from the mat

Humpday.  Once upon a time I hated Wednesdays.  Nothing good ever happened on a Wednesday.  Mondays offered the hope of a clean slate, Fridays brought release and Thursdays were magical.  But on Wednesday I was stranded in the middle waiting to get to the end.  And then things changed, as Read more…

monday manifesto: change

manifesto; noun, mission statement, proclamation, declaration, announcement Every since the Whitney Houston news and the onslaught of opinions, I’ve been re-examining my own struggles with change.  Most people I know want to change something in their lives, whether it’s physical or material.  We are saturated with books, DVDs, programs, pills and Read more…

no hurry, no worry

I’m always worried.  I worry about all sorts of things from personal finances to the global economic crisis; from my health to the impending doom of the planet’s destruction.  I’m trying to cure myself of this habit but I’m genetically inclined.  My mother was a worrier and her mother before Read more…