The Red Boats by Claude Monet “The much that calls for more.” — Margaret Fuller 1810-1850 There are moments when The Mystery, through circumstance, opens the ledgers of our life revealing its accounts—the credits and debits of experience and expression—our daily commerce. At these junctures we are best served to sit well in […]
I grew up in America’s mid-west: Mom from Brooklyn. Dad, rural Iowa. Dad never distanced himself from depression era losses. We all enjoyed THAT world. Mom struggled to imbue a fundamentalist Christian bent. WHEW! If that’s not a small box to add to impoverished thought… myopia and degrees of difficulty notwithstanding, the reconciling of a […]
1-2 December 2018 Fields of Grace Constellation workshop in Ashland, OR Learn more and sign up here
“Whatever you do in life will be insignificant but it’s very important that you do it.” —Mahatma Gandhi There can be madness in our lives if we allow it. Now—today—locally and globally—there are myriad circumstances that don’t jibe well with our lives. Or so we are wont to assert, but this is for another time. […]
September 22 – 23rd, 2018 Ashland, Oregon “There are some kisses we want.” – Rumi The consequences of governmental madness repeatedly reaches new zeniths. The time has come to: Stop unwittingly choosing what you do not want Unchoose Unselfishly choose again and again what you want and need. Do you know? That you unwittingly choose higher […]
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1) Do no unnecessary harm. 2) Do not presume. 3) Do not compare experience. The world doesn’t need changing. We do. Read on and live the three ethics and be changed. Do no unnecessary harm We can’t live without harming someone or something. Though we can completely avoid doing unnecessary harm. This requires that we […]
Tree of Life — Gustav Klimt “Poems are rough notations for the music we are.” — Rumi (Coleman Barks translation) Rumi’s acumen in perceiving people as music is not such a stretch given that science describes reality in terms of frequencies—waves of matt er, sound, light, electromagnetism and so on. So our […]
Mahatma Gandhi: “Whatever you do in life will be insignificant but it’s very important that you do it.” A year ago this month my elderly father took his life ostensibly without letting others know what’s up. Yet, the morning my brother told me, I realized that my dad had been telling me as much for the […]