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. […]

*{Upon leading a few informal sessions and discovering all the misperceptions we have of Meditation, my hope is the following may be helpful to summarize the essence of why people are drawn to it and how to make sense of all the noise}* Welcome. We are drawn to meditation because we lead very busy lives, […]

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 […]

It is human nature to resist change and loss.  We prefer to keep things the same, often to our detriment.  We hold on to – even cling to – toxic relationships, bad jobs, unhealthy lifestyles.  The main driver for resistance may be fear: fear of loss, fear of the unknown, fear of losing the ability […]

Whatever your belief system, music is the language of the soul. What else can touch people at such a deep emotional level?  Music can inspire, heal, soothe, rage, elevate, love, hate and literally captivate every other feeling that dwells deep inside us, sometimes all in the same song!  As Beethoven once said, “Music should strike […]

On a soccer field, a six year old boy winds up for a kick but only catches air, completely missing the ball and falls flat on his face.  Some of the players laugh; some look the other way.  It was pure humiliation.  But one teammate rushes over to dust him off and help him get […]

It is hard to see the forest for the trees but most of us traverse up two mountains in our lifetime. We start to climb our first mountain when we are young, as we establish our identity and satisfy our ego. We learn how to navigate our personal journey, often through trial and error, as […]

KarmaCafe: A meeting place where those who pass through the doorway find meaning, redemption and understanding as they discover their lives intersect in surprising ways and that we are all interconnected in some manner. This is not my story. Rather, this a story about all of us. Our story will be told through the lives […]

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 […]

*Reposting with the hope that we will yearn and desire a renewed connection with community once we don’t need to socially isolate* I was walking out of a supermarket when a homeless man pushing a shopping cart caught my attention in the far corner of my eye. He was hard to ignore, talking – yelling, […]