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When you said that thing I didn’t like,I didn’t like you for saying it. “Bad person you! Bad!” For saying that poisonous thingthat means somethingsomething about me. And that “don’t-like-it”
March 9, 2025
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When you said that thing I didn’t like,I didn’t like you for saying it. “Bad person you! Bad!” For saying that poisonous thingthat means somethingsomething about me. And that “don’t-like-it”
It seems to be getting harder to count on established sources of truth, justice, and knowledge necessary to deliver the clarity, confidence, and safety needed to navigate life. Parental wisdom
Several middle school principals independently came to me in 2000 to see if I could use my performance skills to put together a program on character development to enhance their
One of the countries most insightful social commentators once remarked that as a society we’ve all gotten away from the true meaning of Christmas — “the birth of Santa”. Homer
June 1, 2024 “I call this approach Non-violent Communication, using the term nonviolence as Gandhi used it — to refer to our natural state of compassion when violence has subsided from the
May 2, 2024 Humans don’t realize the cost that self-awareness brings with it. In the wild, the animal brain has many functions that support their survival. The oldest region of
April 17, 2024 We grow up thinking that this physical world is all there is. Oh yeah, maybe there’s those places called Heaven and Hell that some of those religions
My morning ritual includes drawing a card from the Trillium Self-Inquiry Deck. This morning, I woke with a return of pain associated with healing from hip replacement over 3 months
Recently, after a long period of infirmity, I was called to resume my morning practice of prayer and contemplation. It’s not that I had stopped these practices but that I
It’s been a deep journey of grief for me since George Floyd was murdered by police officers in Minneapolis on May 25. You might wonder why this is newsworthy, the
Something that stays constant for me is awareness. Whatever is happening inside of me in some response or reaction to pleasure or pain, I am aware of it in a
In our Trillium Awakening path, we describe one of the early stages of the awakening processes as the rot, coming to the end of fixing strategies that we have followed
When you are ready, come. I will be waiting by the river’s purling hurry, slim or sleek with spring. We will walk there and your story– river in ice, river
CREATE! is a depth creativity process that I have developed and teach. It enables anyone to access depth creativity, divine guidance and universal wisdom at will. Practitioners often use writing
September 2, 2020 So much of our lives are spent trying to perfect ourselves, trying to prove to others – our parents, teachers, peers, bosses, spouses, tribe – that we
Words fail me…..when I feel like this, fallen with such intensity…. into I know not what. Pressed full-force, from the inside out, to meet the one you are. The I
Communing with the moon and stars (and all pieces of nature) is very special to me and is a direct connection to the Divine and all of its magical glory.
“You know all those great spiritual ideals we’ve cherished for years? Those are actually real things and they can be experienced by ordinary people like you and me.” These words
December 31, 2000 Great grace has graced my life. I had believed that it couldn’t happen to me, and then it did… I have been reluctant to place this free-verse
You are the living paradox of Primal Feeling Is-ness in physical embodiment. You are a dynamic process as the Consciously Feeling or Feelingly Conscious body-mind (or body-mind-soul complex, to speak