Crickets still have the main concert stage as I slip out into the awakening morning with my camera bag. Normally I would head towards the lake at this hour of the day to soak in the sounds...
Spider Web Meditation
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Mindful Resources From Black Friends
It’s Saturday morning, the day after Juneteenth. I was embarrassed and humbled to learn of my ignorance about this holiday, which celebrates the end of slavery in Texas almost two years...
Compassion Creates Courage: Owning My White Privilege
Having compassion for others frees us from fearing … it turns our attention outward, expanding our perspective, making our own problems … part of something bigger than us that we are all...
How Our Meditation Program Participants Built Resilience In the Midst of Pandemic
"What's her secret?" Normally I only offer my 30-Day Mindfulness Meditation Challenge courses three or four times spread evenly over a year. In response to these unusual times, my third...
Nature’s Reassurance Can Sustain Us
The first three weeks of being home-bound felt embarrassingly nice. As an introvert with a home-based business that has something of value to offer during the covid-19 situation, my work...
Birthday Artist Date in Lockdown
It's my birthday today. If you've been following for a while, you might remember that on my birthday I usually take myself on a mindful Artist Date. Over the years this has taken different...
World Bank + SIY = More Envisioning Come True
Participants in the First Search Inside Yourself 2-Day Certified Program at the World Bank I'm still on cloud nine a week out from our first official Search Inside Yourself 2-Day program...
Back to the Bones of my Photography Craft
“This isn’t my season for photography.” I heard those words come out of my mouth when I was talking to Karen Rexrode, my friend, fellow artist, and manager of Art a la Carte Gallery in...
This Is What a Change Agent Looks Like
At the World Bank with Change Agent Luis Schwarz and fellow SIY Certified Teacher Barbara Geluda Boselli One of my 2020 intentions is to shine a spotlight on inspiring change agents I’ve...
My 2020 Goals
One of the greatest sins is the unlived life, not to allow yourself to become chief executive of the project you call your life, to have a reverence always for the immensity that is inside...
2019 Report Card and Reflections for Moving Forward
There is incredible symmetry in a tree, between its inner life and its outer life, between its rooted memory and its external active presence. A tree grows up and grows down at once and...
Flexing My Healthy Deviant Muscles (From My Sickbed)
This is the time of year when I'm usually absorbed with list-making, holiday decorating, tree trimming, cookie baking, and gift shopping. Though I try to keep December light on the work...