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 a big buck word, i like words.) And what’s so scary about people who are wide awake? Remember a little story called Animal Farm? Back Read more…
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 he give up reading. Number 2 volunteered to give up salad. In the end I will be giving up the early morning hours to meditation Read more…
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 fear or procrastination. The first time I gave something up for Lent it was simply for the challenge. Although I was baptized in the Anglican Read more…
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 they so often do. Slowly and organically Wednesdays came to symbolize something else. The middle of the week was now an opportunity to check in Read more…
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 more that will help us be “better” – better lovers, dressers, parents, spouses, students, cooks, and so on. But real change, the kind that endures after Read more…
Like the rest of the world I woke up Sunday to the news that Whitney Houston had died. Opinions were flying fast and furious through the cyber sphere, and sadly a fair bit of it negative and judgmental. I spent the day sequestered in my room working. At one point I overheard snippets of a program B.I.L was watching in the next room. Chris Herren, a former basketball player with the Boston Celtics was sharing Read more…
There are a lot of people claiming to have a direct line to God. Their conversations don’t leave me with a lot of faith. I mean really, if I called up and the voice on the end of the line was telling me to go kill someone for them, I’d hang up and redial because obviously I had the wrong number. Of course that’s an extreme example. It’s irritating that so much energy is spent Read more…
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 her. The road to recovery starts with recognition of the affliction. Recently I worried about losing momentum on this blogging business because this living business Read more…