Winter Solstice

December 21, 2021

YAY!   This day has always been special to me.  Where I live on the planet, the Winter Solstice in December is the shortest day and the longest night.  After the Solstice, the days start to become longer and nights shorter.  Light is in ascendance.  For this, I celebrate. A bit of factoid trivia:  “solstice” … Read More

Shifting Paradigms

May 11, 2021

How did we get to the point we are at today in our modern Western civilization?   How did greed, corruption, and selfishness become so prevalent?  How did our lives get so busy, our frustrations so many, and our sense of contentment and achievement so hard won? We live in an atmosphere charged with the expectancy … Read More

Follow the K.I.S.S. Method

April 19, 2021

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”        ~Leonardi da Vinci Keep It Simple, Sweetie! Originally I heard it with the second “S” standing for “stupid.”  I like Sweetie better. I like to think of simplicity this way:  what is the essence?  Of a communication, task, composition — whatever life dishes up; what is the essence … Read More

Art & True Beauty

March 22, 2021

Beauty vs. “Art”: Humility in the artist is his frank acceptance of all experiences, just as Love in the artist is simply that sense of Beauty that reveals to the world its body and its soul.       ~ Oscar Wilde I have noticed that people often — and I think unconsciously — use the … Read More

Reading as Therapy

February 1, 2021

I have always found solace in reading books; entering others’ journeys, mysteries, ideas and thoughts. Recently I have been reading: Infinite Awareness, The Awakening of a Scientific Mind – by Marjorie Hines Woollacott Membranes of Hope,  A Guide to Attending to the Spiritual Boundaries that Keep Life Systems Healthy from the Personal to the Cosmic … Read More