Spirit

Last year I wrote about the three words I’d chosen to guide me through the year, and since it was already the end of January I thought I was pretty damn late in pulling them together. After [...]

I’d been on the road only 10 minutes when the downpour turned to feather-like snowflakes. Damn! Usually I get excited when I see the white stuff. Except when I’m behind the wheel. [...]

As we speed headlong through the last weeks of 2012, a collective anxiety is building. This year it’s not just the shopping, the overeating, the wondering what will need to be [...]

Can you recall the single most terrifying moment of your life? If you’re like me there are plenty of those heart-stopping instants. The day your car skidded off the road, the first time you [...]

If you haven’t gotten the memo yet you’ve been hiding under a rock. It’s everywhere: from mainstream newspapers, to church bulletins, to your favorite blog:  Practicing Gratitude will make [...]

We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.” ― Kahlil Gibran When you gaze at a bright moon in a clear sky, you may marvel at its beauty, imagining how  someone on the other [...]

This weekend we celebrate balance. The light is perfectly poised between day and night, each one exactly equal. In Northern Hemisphere we’re turning toward the dark time, the fallow period of [...]

I first tried to meditate when I was 19. I sat in my college dorm room, in as much of a lotus position as I could manage, and gazed at a candle flame. Then I closed my eyes, counted the beats of [...]

When my daughter Ciel was just four or five years old, we lived in a little, decrepit cottage backed up into a hillside. Ciel slept in the room in the back of the house, but during our first [...]

For many years I dreaded the winter holidays almost as much as I anticipated them. As the owner of a retail business, preparations for this time of year began, literally, in spring or early [...]