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Are You An Angel Born In Hell? How To Transcend The Paradox
At this time in our evolution, there are many who are suffering the ravages of war, hurricanes, earthquakes, and wildfires. There are also those we don't hear about. The ones who are suffering their own private hell, usually alone. If you ask me, on some level we...
The Art of Chillin’ – Balm For The Soul
In the summer months, I freelance as a Bed and Breakfast host and Innkeeper. I love this work and it is hard work, yet it suits my inner being while also giving me most afternoons and evenings to pursue writing and other creative passions. One of the things I love...
Inner Joy – The New Meaning of Success
I went for a 10 km hike yesterday along a trail that leads deep into the woods. It was one of those perfectly magical weather days. Not too hot. Not too cool. Puffy white clouds. Striking blue sky. Butterflies fluttering. Dragonflies flitting. Blue herons gliding....
Are You Living Up To Your Creative Potential?
It's morning. I'm looking out my bedroom window as I write this post. A gentle rain is falling and I can smell the wet earth as she gives thanks for the nourishment. A multitude of birds is chorusing their song of thanks as well. Vibrant emerald green leaves on the...
Honoring The Soul – How To Live An Authentic Life
I have just spent an entire year listening. Listening on the inside that is. It's been a strange and wonderful year of allowing my life to be as it is, which I have discovered, is a life deeply ensconced in the process of a major spiritual, emotional, mental, and...
Living the Prayer of the Soul – How Beauty Transforms Us
I worship beauty. I can say that with such power, confidence, and ease because it's the language and living prayer of the soul. I'm not talking about the kind of beauty found in the glitz and glitter of a cheap, superficial life. I'm also not talking about...
Effortless Abundance
Last month I wrote about my new garden and the sacred serenity it brings to me. Just one short month later, the earth has lavished us with her effortless abundance. We have enjoyed so many gorgeous lettuces, green and yellow beans, herbs, and spring onions, and...
When Angels Fingerpaint
I recently re-published a book of poetry that was originally released back in 1997 called When Angels Fingerpaint. It was such a joy to re-visit these words, having to re-type each one, as the original computer and files were long gone. What was reinforced as I typed...
Sacred Serenity
I recently acquired a garden plot as part of a community garden in the town where I live. This community garden is part of a wonderful project that helps to provide organic, locally grown produce to the town's food bank. I am provided with my own personal garden plot...
These Are The Days
It's incredible to be alive at this point in the planet's evolution. So much, in just our lifetime, has drastically changed on every level. I'm 51 years old, and the 60's, 70's, 80's, and 90's no longer exist as memories to draw upon in an effort to live this life....
Joy Comes Softly
These days, I'm finding less and less to write about. Everything seems to boil down to the same thing. We are here. We exist. Anything other than that is simply suffering from the attachments, conditioning, concepts, and beliefs our minds have learned. The good news...
The Purpose of All Creation
How easy it is to get lost in a sea of questions: "What is my purpose?""Why am I here?""How may I serve?""Who am I?" While asking these types of questions can certainly lead us to the eternal well-spring of the spiritual nourishment we may be so desperately longing...
Life Is But A Dream
"In every moment we are absolutely perfect because our true nature is indestructible. Our true nature cannot be conditioned by anything.” – Anam Thubten Sometimes it can be really challenging for the mind to grasp that this life we are living is just a dream. It tends...
Something Endless & Beginning-less
In this excerpt (below) from my ebook, The Myth of Being Thin, I reflected while these few paragraphs were being written, on the teachings most of us never received about our true essence. "Self-improvement is halted in its tracks when we get a taste of our true...
When The Sky Speaks
I took this sunset photo below a few hours ago from my balcony. Beauty's presence leaves me awestruck every single time. I never tire of the wonder of the natural world. In fact, in moments like this one, all I feel is pure grace, endless love, and deep gratitude. Who...
Our Common Ache
As I hike along a beloved trail, I am serenaded by the sound of crickets celebrating it seems, in the warmth of the autumn sunshine. Somewhere, a woodpecker is knocking on a tree, while underneath my feet a golden carpet is being laid down from the cascade of leaves...
Eternal Remembrance Comes Silently
I am watching a gentle rain as it softly waters the expanse of trees in the valley laid out below me. I am so blessed to sit up here at my bedroom window and see this view every, single day.It changes subtly year after year with the familiar coming and going of the...
The Hidden Gift
Award winning Canadian Ojibway author, Richard Wagamese, tells a wonderful tale in his book, For Joshua, about the the arrival of man upon Mother Earth. He talks about the Creator gathering together all the Animal People and speaking these words: "I am sending a...