resourcing the natural…6-1-20

Maybe you feel current events hitting you like a ton of bricks, the rage of injustice deeply stirred.  Yet again.  Maybe the news propels you into a morass of numbness.  Sinking into […]

gimme shelter…3-18-2020

I’m home.  Maybe you are, too.  Feeling life spread out in a volatility that seems different than my own history with chaos.  Any childhood innocence about predictability was shattered at […]

Want to get nothing done?…2-27-20

Really, who am I to teach a workshop titled Cultivate Being?  Me, the living embodiment of all things doing.  With the never completed to do list.  Whose sure indicator of […]

getting unstuck…1-6-2020

Sometimes when I write, the volume and immediacy of response lets me know I touched into a tender nerve.  This time, instead of the newsletter, it was a Facebook post […]

trusting a genuine map…10-11-19

GPS is trendy awesome.  Tap a screen, eerie voice calls the shots, arrive at destination.  I’m always clear about where the GPS journey begins but I’ve only a vague idea […]

living undefended…9-12-19

“…Now I give praise and thanks for what could not be avoided and for every foolhardy choice I cherish my wounds and their cures and the sweet enervations of bliss […]

as much as necessary, as little as possible…9-3-19

I had a pedestal teacher for ten years.  Not that she put herself up on one.  I did.  Somehow I’d arrived well into middle age without ever listening in rapt […]

it’s about time…7-8-19

January 2005: trapped in a corner office of my own creation.  Boxed into medical space, clear manifestation of a mid-life professional with thirty plus years of clinical experience, beaucoup continuing […]

fostering the mystery…2-13-19

Our personal growth can be capricious, transformative moments that blindside us, consciousness leaps shrouded in mystique. We land in expanded zones with a thunk, not sure how we arrived, just […]

ambushed by the jackal…2-4-19

Ambushed two weeks ago while teaching. Blindsided by the jackal. The inner critic. The dude in charge of corralling me safely into my comfort zone. So I never go belly […]