I was a Dictator to my own body for a long time. I smoked cigarettes for 39 years and never once did I ask my lungs, heart or skin if it was a good idea. I lived in the ivory tower of my own mind and dictated what my body […]
Dr Dohn
“I woke up Tuesday in an emotional funk. I had sunk into an abysmal dark tunnel of I’m not enough and there has never been any possibility of me being anything more than a continuing failures as a neer-do-well. The feeling was disgustingly familiar and dangerously comforting. Finance, romance, […]
The Leader for Friday evening says, “The topic is “Speaking the Unspeakable, what don’t you want us to know about you?” The twelve men of the Wide Sky Men’s Council are sitting in a circle around the fire-pit(no fires this time of year). We had been drumming together for 30 […]
“When you’re good at something, you’ll tell everyone. When you are really great at something, they’ll tell you.” Walter Payton My GrandDad was a Doctor in Encinitas, California in the 1920’s 30’s and 40’s. He opened his office, pharmacy and lunch counter on Pacific Coast Highway at a corner not […]
Fourteen men, screaming at the top of their lungs, pounding the floor, raising their hands yelling “We celebrate Ray bunch” over and over again for several minutes. Here’s how that happened: Last night I accepted an invitation to a Men’s Group in Newport Beach called The Savages and Saints. Fourteen […]
Robert Bly wrote a poem about what can happen when two people are completely together. I believe he wrote this about himself and his wife. He suggests that when two people can be together, with no hidden agendas or withheld communications then a third, really beautiful presence occurs that […]
It is with a broken heart that I let you know that our beloved Ray Bunch passed from this Earth to his next great adventure today. He was surrounded by family when he passed, and I know that he is presently surrounded by the love of Spirit and the love […]
Joseph Heller, creator of Hellerwork Structural Integration passed from this life two weeks ago. His training in 1984 was 1500 hours of Bodywork, Dialogue and Movement education. The school was at Westerbeke Ranch in Sonoma California. We were 22 students and 5 or 6 instructors including […]
Tremendous wealth and tremendous poverty left me with gratitude. A lot of gratitude. We had a driver take us from Delhi(wealthy, modern, air polluted and traffic congested) to the Taj Mahal(crowds, history, craftsmanship, don’t make eye contact with the monkeys, they will steal your hats, glasses and bite you). […]
As Ray and I walk in the early morning in Bellflower the Sun is just beginning to become visible as our world rotates. We talk and create an atmosphere of aliveness in all it’s twists, turns and glory. We don our sunglasses and comment on the beautiful multi-colors from the […]