

What Keeps Us Afloat
I call them mom-isms, my mother’s newly found perspectives that speak of Buddhist equanimity with a dash of slapstick humor. She offered...


Finding Calm in the Midst of Family
Today’s blog speaks to the upcoming holidays and a bit of perspective for finding calm in the midst of family (or at least a bit more...


Calming the Anxious Brain
Some days go wonky, no matter the plans or intentions, and wonkier still when our brain becomes anxious. On a recent trip to Oaxaca with...


To Each His Own Rhythm
I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing goes unsung.”- Rabindranath Tagore When I...


In the Garden of Reality
When this Bird of Paradise flowering plant was set next to our little pond over four years ago I did not really see it. Then two feet...


A Matter of Power
“As dark and crazy as the world currently is, something bright resides beneath the darkness—and it’s the light of a single awakening...


Truer than True
“What is truer than the truth? The story.” — Jewish saying* I hadn’t intended to use this photograph. A split second of awesome beauty....


Compassionate Power
It is empowering and connecting to speak from our own wisdom and knowing, drawn from the deep well of our experience and clarified...


Yes Instead of No
The message is simple. We are all connected, like the pick-up sticks in the photo. Move one even the tiniest bit, and the others quiver....


Wisdom is What Works
This juicy morsel comes from the incomparable Clarissa Pinkola Éstes, heard on a book-on-tape while driving to an appointment today. I...