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...
Stardust & Poppies – A Little Perspective
Sometimes I love to freak myself out by looking at NASA photos of the earth in relation to infinity. Well, at least the amount of infinity a super-powered NASA camera can capture... It can really mess with your head, but if you are someone like me, who is on a...
Nectar of the Gods – Good Medicine
What is it about beauty that can often leave us speechless and still? The kind of still that awe and reverence have a way of bestowing upon us. The kind of still that empties us of everything except the silent calm of the soul. For the past ten years I have lived...
The Language of Peace – Bowing Deeply
As I write this I am looking out across the expanse of 1200 hectares of the most fresh, spring green urban wilderness. This is the back-yard that I share with countless other people and creatures in the area. The temperature is climbing to 30C at midday, more the...
Pointing The Compass Home – A Return to Safety
As I write these words, I am watching the sun descend behind the hills for yet another day. Darkness will soon cast its evening blanket of shadows over the valley and trees, and if I'm really lucky, I'll get to gaze up at an infinite sky sparkling with the light of...
How To Feel Rich And Real – The New R & R of Our Times
It's a rather volatile time on the planet right now. Is there anyone who is not feeling this energy? It's manifesting as feelings of extreme hyperactivity in the mind which may be producing quite the roller coaster of emotions. With the sudden death of Prince and so...
How To Live The Life You Love – Begin Now
One of my favorite thoughts that I have permanently downloaded into the computer that's called my mind is, "we create our own joy." Doesn't thinking this thought make you feel good? It does me, and I am forever reminding myself of this whenever I find I'm in a...
Sensual Living – More Ways To Live A Creative Life
In my last post, How To Live A Creative Life - The Art of Sensuality, I spoke about the importance of indulging in our senses as a way to open the gateway to our fullest creative potential. Today I want to get more specific and talk about how things like art, writing,...
How To Live A Creative Life – The Art of Sensuality
Whether we are writers, painters, potters, quilters, musicians, or any other type of artist, our creativity will always be enhanced and flowing in full force when we discover the connection between our art and sensual pleasure. Over the years I have discovered that...
Dark Angel – A Muse To Fear Or Embrace?
About eight years ago I wrote an article called, Owning The Beast Within. It came about as an expression of all I had learned about my own dark angel through years of compassionate therapy with a truly gifted woman and healer. She had shown me the places inside myself...