Relationships are everything. Every living being exists as part of a network or system. When we look at something or someone on their own, we are examining something only in isolation, and we necessarily miss essential information and understanding because we are discounting context, that is to say, the whole picture. The whole picture is … Continue reading Relationships
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Just around the corner from my son's school are these trees. They live across this wide city street from each other, but they have bent and grown toward each other. I look at these trees every day and often marvel at how certain living beings connect with others, how over time we bend ourselves in … Continue reading Friends
This past weekend, I was invited to participate in some sacred ceremonies belonging to another culture. I was welcomed into something I have very little understanding of and held there, supported. I was included. It was a situation where I could easily have been held at a distance, left to observe. But I was drawn … Continue reading Belonging
I've been thinking a lot lately about discipline and focus, specifically in relation to directing energy to accomplishing things. To be clear, especially in this goal driven society we live in, achievement isn't everything, but there is a special satisfaction in creating something, in making it happen. Despite the satisfaction inherent in reaching a goal, … Continue reading Practice
Don’t look to others to give you happiness. Grow it within yourself and share it with the world around you. Bets are, if you give a bit of your happiness to the world, it will begin a ripple effect, and who knows how many other people you can help. It’s never too late to decide … Continue reading Inscribing
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. --Rumi It's November now and and as we slip toward the end of the calendar year, I can't help but notice the darkness. It's both the physical … Continue reading The long path home
Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. Ludwig van Beethoven Soup. It's basic. Though the ingredients change, it's part of almost every culture, which means almost all of us can conjure a memory of sitting down and sipping or spooning soup to our lips. We can imagine the warmth in our bellies. … Continue reading The Soup
