An Illustrious Tribe of Thoughtful Readers
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…
Read MoreHow We Can Save Ourselves
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…
Read MoreNo Time for Fear, It’s Wasteful
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,…
Read MoreA Nervy Time for All of Us, Indeed!
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…
Read MoreTo Why? or Not to Why
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…
Read MoreLearn 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…
Read MoreA Better Choice for All Humans
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…
Read MoreTrauma Teaches Us Hard, but Needed Lessons
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…
Read MoreWe Are a Universal Blended Family of Humankind
We’ve all had to adapt and change during the past year and a half, due to Covid, the great tormentor. But Covid is also a great spiritual teacher! That’s right. You heard me correctly. Without Covid, a lot of us would never have gotten the lesson so directly that how we accept hardships is entirely…
Read MoreWhat Suffering Teaches Us
There’s an old saying. Some say it’s from Zen Buddhism, others say it’s universally a spiritual teaching that applies to anyone wishing to become happier. “Only a cracked pot allows the light in.” What does this mean? To me, it’s clearly about accepting our impefections. In Japan that’s called wabisabi. This is a philosophy that…
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