Ordinary Courage

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying. "I will try again tomorrow." - Mary Anne Radmacher Courage is losing someone you love and going on, wobbling, sad, lonely, but moving on a step at a time. Courage is losing an animal whose life you accepted...

“I am what I HAVE” Or Greedy and Needy

I find myself driven to acquire people, places, and things. Lot's of things. Recently I was sitting in my office working when this dropped in, we used to live with just the stuff we could move and carry. And now I live in a box, and I can see that part of the game was...

Show and Tell Impermanence

"Everything in life is just for a while." - Phillip K. Dick I've sat through four "talks" on impermanence this year. And one two day workshop. Every one was the same thing. "Oh look, impermanence exists, and look this and that is impermanent, and then an encouragement to notice things are impermanent because that will...

Alive

I don't want to be happy or rich or enlightened. I want to feel alive. I want to experience being enfolded within my own process that's also woven into the entire universe. And when I'm with you, I want to be intensely there, totally absorbed, soaking you in, entwined, only to part ways, and be...

Another Silly Label

"If you have to make a "holiday" out of something that cries out to be known daily, your wasting your time with useless games." - Little Bloody Wolf - Iroquois It seems harsh, but making special days out of what needs to be a daily task is moving away from what is needed. Often the...

Lonely but Never Alone

"Sometimes being surrounded by everyone is the loneliest, because you'll realize you have no one to turn to." - Soraya I can feel lonely, but I'm never alone. I know that, but in truth it's never a feeling of being alone or lonely that's enabling suffering, it's a feeling of being one of a kind,...

Compression, Being, Winter Engaged

Life is too complex to reduce to sound bites. Every situation is different. - Sarah Brightman How true, I felt immensely compressed when I woke up. Somehow my world has become more intricate, emotional, and is wobbling hard. So, I went for a walk. 1:17 Am, It's 20 degrees F, and I must admit, you...

Fragility

Paradoxically, we achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness. -Jalaja Bonheim It's easy to let each moment pass, thinking we have so many, or holding a belief, a comparison, that I will trade the present in leu of some shiny future me, one that's better, happier, more complete than I...

Giving Self

"It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved." - Mother Teresa She will always be one of my favorite seekers, an explorer into the more unobserved needs that humanity expresses in so many ways. This one strikes to the heart of...

Knowing that “Authority” figure

If you want to really know someone, in terms of how they operate in life, cut past those roles and conditioned presentations, and hang around long enough to see them when they lose something precious, can't have something they want, or you do something they don't "approve" of. Because until that point, when you see...