Bravo! My willingness to put my own (and especially my family's) well-being at risk has declined significantly with age. Yet your point is well taken. And the example you're setting is truly inspiring. May we all find more courage within us to not allow the bullies to prevail as easily as they've seemed to (especially in recent years)...

Fresh from an email correspondence this morning: …our minds take our thought-forms and weave them into stories that can never hold the full truth. The actual truth of who you are at the deepest level lies in a fathomless ocean of sweet, still silence. I wish for you to find yourself there. It’s a place where you can always hang out and receive all that you need. ~my (relatively new!) friend Helen

I wrote the below to a group of friends. Seems worth posting here as well. i’ve mostly been trying to keep from getting too affected by what’s going on in the world of global and national human affairs, but this morning in particular i’m feeling the *weight* of so much conflict bearing down…

While i don’t like to start off ‘in opposition’ i have to say that right now, it seems like the right way to begin, because our 21st century reality is shaped by corporate entities which have grown far too powerful and which in some cases are completely out of control…

As i start to compose this piece, one of the underlying reasons for doing so has to do with a long Facebook thread on friend Sianna Lieb’s wall underneath her post of an article claiming that a majority of Bernie Sanders supporters intend to withhold their support for any Democratic…

I have faith in: the potential of humanity the resilience of Nature the mostly unfathomable complexity of the Universe, and the systems, organization, and/or entities contained therein

On Thursday April 17th, 2009, the car my mother was a passenger in went out of control between Elizabethtown and Keene Valley in the Adirondak Mountains of upstate NY and was struck by a minivan traveling in the opposite direction. The occupants of the minivan and the driver of the…

This is a bit of a ‘meta’ followup response continuation to what i posted the other day. If you haven’t already read my piece there titled emerging, it is highly recommended that you first do so in order that the below will make the most sense. …

Until the late ’90s I was a complete layperson. But at that point in my life after having worked outside (construction, landscaping, gardening, farming, etc…) following college I was looking to try to earn more income as our kids were getting older and we were looking towards the time when…