Two and a half weeks ago, I had a total knee replacement here in Hualien, Taiwan where I continue to recover day by day. I feel grateful in this moment for so many reasons: I’m still alive and life offers endless opportunity to learn and grow, to make a difference in the world, and to […]
Light at the End of the Tunnel – A Healing Journey Read More »
We take our mind with us everywhere, even to bed. Last week, I dreamed that the sky was lit up with an other-worldly glow; a comet was passing Earth inside the moon’s orbit but almost motionless under the strange laws of dream consciousness. There was a sense of both apocalyptic world ending panic and transcendent
COVID Diary – The Polar Bear Express Read More »
When you’ve identified a positive goal that you want to achieve in life. Figure out what you need to do to accomplish it and then go do it!
A Day in the Enchantments Read More »
“There is no path to peace, peace is the path.” Gandhi Reading the story of how one woman, tuned in to trauma dynamics, helped deescalate a hostage situation, brought back memories of my own brush with a potentially violent situation. Unfortunately, the incident last week at a Trader Joe’s in California resulted in an innocent
Crisis Intervention and the Path to Freedom Read More »
Everything depends on good motivation. (His Holiness the Dalai Lama) The unexamined life is not worth living. (Henry David Thoreau) Wild West Wanderings August 1989. Cape Scott. One Hundred tiny shorebirds skim the wavetops as one. They veer into the diamond reflections, their wings flash white, and vanish. Many sacrifices were made to arrive here,
flower rocks for buddha; a collection of essays, dreams, word plays & borrowed wisdom Read More »
stories are part of being human, and we need them. Make your story, our story, a good one. May all beings be free from suffering and attain the supreme state beyond suffering.
The Art of the Story Read More »
The empowerment model of sexual assault response acknowledges that the survivor owns their story. It is theirs to tell – if they choose to do so. In the aftermath of having their physical, emotional, and spiritual safety brutally stolen from them, allowing them to own the story is a necessary prerequisite before healing can begin.
It Happened – Facing the Evil of Sexual Violence Read More »
The darkest moment is just before the dawn. Even as an ebbing tide of greed and hatred threatens to drown us all in an ocean of war and environmental self-destruction, a new tide of love and defense of Mother Earth and all her children has already started rising
Grace Under Fire, the Path of Peaceful Service Read More »
Why go? I go to the mountains for meditation and healing, for solitude and beauty, which is all around, though too often unnoticed in the hectic modern urban pathways we often follow. Smartphones in hand, we rush like automatons towards our death, clicking here and there, never pausing to see the flowers, or so it
Mountain Spirits Old Bones II – Long Ridge Trail Hike, July 2-4, 2016 Read More »
Eliminating so-called evil people with retaliatory air strikes not only literally misses the mark – the perpetrators are rarely harmed and more innocent civilians die – but even when war criminals are captured, killing them is not a solution. According to the law of karma, the mind of this life continues into a future life. If seeds of killing are planted in this life, those seeds ripen in future lives. We need to plant seeds of compassion, love, and understanding.
Paris: Conversation with a twelve year old Read More »
