Carrie Fisher was one of my earliest inspirations in her role as Princess Leia. Anyone could have delivered those lines, but no one could have delivered them like she did. She was feisty, no-nonsense, a problem solver – and she made her place in the command center of the rebellion look entirely natural, which was …
My dear sisters and brothers, Now that the event many of us have been fearing for the last six months has come to pass, we can waste our energy being indignant or we can hear it as the wake-up call we have been ignoring for a generation or more…and wake up. As a country (if …
My beloved husband, whose (for want of a better descriptor) woo-woo tolerance is considerably lower than mine, has hung in with me valiantly. Of course, he is living with six and a half chakra panels in the room where we do yoga, so he can’t get away from it entirely. My 87-year-old father, who is …
I remember the month, although not the specific day or hour, when I crossed one of my personal Rubicons. On one side of that border, I could refer to humanity as ‘mankind’ and on the other, I couldn’t. On one side I was perfectly willing to accept the semantic practice of referring to groups of …
Yes, I have a story for this week — if I had the time to edit it properly. Yes, I can produce a guided meditation for the fifth energy node — with an hour to devote to it. However, my truth is that it is Wednesday and I am still working on the fiber panel …
Dick grew up as an only child of an older couple. His parents were not bad people, but neither of them knew a thing about raising children. They both came from abusive families and never intended to have a child, both fearful about the possibility of repeating their own childhood. Once they found had a …
Several months ago, I read a delightful story about a visit the Dalai Lama made to Colorado in the mid-1970s. During the trip, he wanted to see a ski slope in action. He was not quite as well known at the time and his life was not as scheduled and hedged around with protocol, so …
We sat together and cried for almost two hours, sometimes holding hands, sometimes wiping our eyes or noses with tissues (we emptied a whole box). And two days later we did it all over again. She is a professor with a doctorate in the hard sciences. Years ago, as an undergraduate, she made the decision she …
I don’t know about you, but winter is a season when my energy is low and while lying dormant may be what I need to do, my frontal lobe just wants to keep clicking over: producing, checking things off the list, producing, scheduling tasks, producing, creating, producing. My body and spirit know they need renewal; …
We western enculturated types tend to think of enlightenment as a mental or psychological or spiritual event because we always tend to separate body and mind, body and heart, spirit and flesh. That separation doesn’t serve us well, but it is virtually hard-wired into us, so we live as if we are two (or more) …