I love watching the graceful transition from Summer to Fall. Mother Nature takes her sweet time with such gradual, incremental changes we barely take notice. Dawn breaks a few seconds later and the sun sets a few seconds earlier, compressing each passing day as we crawl towards Ol’ Man Winter in these lazy Autumn days. […]

We look at our world right now and see so much pain. It is incredibly sad and yet we still have a choice on how we hold pain and suffering, both ours and others.  This pandemic has disrupted all our lives, to be sure, and transformed our daily existence. But we also each face inevitable […]

Remember those wonderful bedtime stories your parents would tell you to lull you to sleep, letting your fertile imagination run wild? The world was full of magical possibilities as we gently dosed off into dreamland with warm and fuzzy feelings in the safe comfort of our home. The storytelling continues as we become adults and […]

The Northern Hemisphere saw its hottest July ever in 2020, surpassing the previous high record set in July 2019. August 2020 was the hottest month EVER on record, eclipsing the previous high which was August of 2019. This summer of 2020 now holds the unfortunate title of hottest summer ever. The past five years have […]

Enlightenment is such a nebulous word. Buddha’s simple definition is the end of suffering. Of course, we all want that, but what does that really mean? It tells us what it is not, but not what it is. How do we end suffering? In a spiritual sense, it means freeing your mind of your inner […]

The following topic has become so convoluted in our culture that you most likely have a bias or opinion on it and will tune out. That is because the messenger(s) of this information has traditionally been from an extreme religious sect and/or culture you can not identify with. So I am going to strip away […]

Summer has finally arrived with seemingly endless sunny days here to stay as we celebrate the fourth of July.  It may harken us back to our glory days, reminding us of those long, lazy carefree days we enjoyed in our youth.  Those fond memories of summer felt like they would last forever with eternal downtime […]

**Reposting as I miss my daily fix due to COVID!** We are a coffee culture.  In fact, coffee is so woven into the fabric of our daily lives that we don’t just simply drink coffee, we have coffee.  It is so integrated in our daily routine and often feels like an experience, an event of some […]

Your head is pounding…your lower back is throbbing…your stomach aches…your wrists are killing you from typing away at the computer all day.  Pain can attack day or night and, if you’re like most of us, your first reaction is to reach for the pain meds.  Advil, Tylenol or bypass the Over-The-Counter stuff altogether and go […]

He steps up to the podium, sweaty palms with beads of perspiration on his forehead and temple; she flushes red with embarrassment at the dinner party when her friends remind her of a high school crush; he turns in the final exam with knots in his stomach; she feels butterflies on her first date.  We […]