The Cause, and the Solution, for the Israel-Hamas Conflict

Big Heart of Compassion

(The following is an excerpt from my 2019 nonfiction book, Hybrid Vigor: a True Reveal of Love. This discussion occurred when I’d been living in Israel the entire year of 1981, before the radical Brotherhood called Hamas was formed, in ’87) From Chapter 8: The Alchemy of Love ******** One day over tea I, in…

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Blindly in Love with Love

Family of Merged Energy

My life quest, I was sure, was to find what meant the most, the deepest, the highest: the best. Limiting that search to a single long-term romantic partner never occurred to me, quite frankly. Believe me, I tried everything, everything! Going too far most times, traveling to the ends of the earth, excessively throwing myself…

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An Illustrious Tribe of Thoughtful Readers

Wisdom Within

Important milestones are acknowledged by all of us along our path to higher understanding. To some of us it’s meeting our mate, or graduating from college, or helping someone out of a big jam. For me, along with many other touchstones that have added significance to my personal quest of attaining inner peace, books have…

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How We Can Save Ourselves

There Is Always Hope

I have come to the realization (long ago, but stronger with each passing moment) that the most important thing in life, anyone’s life … is Love. And by this, I mean, “How do we acknowledge the unifying energy that binds all in creation together, as One.” An acronym came to me the other day for…

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No Time for Fear, It’s Wasteful

The Dreamer, mixed media, 24x48 inches

How we spend our time is what we are. Time after time we prove to ourselves: What we become is what we hold in our consciousness. If you believe things are going wrong, they will. If you believe that things happen for a reason, even if you don’t like them or ever know what reason,…

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A Nervy Time for All of Us, Indeed!

Big Strong Angel, mixed media, 17x22x5 inches

We’re all feeling the crunch of being challenged, aren’t we? If it’s not the pandemic’s anti-versus-got’em vaxers, the political unrest, economic hardship, it’s the most current and war-scary headlines of the Ukraine’s invasion by Russia in our newsfeeds. Or it’s … well, you name it. Being human means dealing with stress. Some of us need…

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To Why? or Not to Why

Not 'Why me?' but 'Why Not?' image by teZa

Recently I’ve come to the realization that being alive means something different to each one of us. Some people don’t even think about “what life means,” in fact. I find myself reflecting on this more and more, especially with the beginning of this third year of the Covid-19 pandemic, and now compounded by the circumstances…

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Learn to Live From the Animals

  Lately, I’ve been “trolled” by dissers in social media, for speaking my mind about how I believe anti-vaxxers are not helping the larger family of humankind, but prolonging this never-ending pandemic. To my trolls I always reply, “How kind of you to share your thoughts.” Why? Why do I not bark back when someone…

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A Better Choice for All Humans

Hybrid Vigor: a true reveal of LOVE

Animals Guide Us to a Better Way Hybrid Vigor is my latest audiobook. It’s about you and me, and everyone else who, like the animals I’ve used as guides in this collection of true accounts, have chosen to demonstrate how humanity needs to change. Each of us gets to choose for ourselves whether or not…

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Trauma Teaches Us Hard, but Needed Lessons

Hybrid Vigor: a true reveal of LOVE

A mishap as slight as a splinter or sprained ankle, or as serious as a broken neck teaches each of us to be more kind to our own body. So too, the resulting effects of social unrest, the political divide, Climate Change, not to mention the deadly pandemic still raging around, are showing us citizens…

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