There is a part of my brain that likes to worry about things. That part of my brain is grateful that Chicken Little seems to have hacked our news and social media outlets with the possible threats and menaces to our health, environment and governments. There is also a part […]
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After 77 times, my birthday came and went again. They just keep coming. My first thought this year was to thank, first of all my Mother as she did all the work. Then, my life is so full, healthy and fun that my gratitude goes to my family. So I […]
I was playing golf with three friends on a hot afternoon at Sky Links Golf Course. On this course, as with most golf courses, they have marshalls that drive the course, carry water, keep the pace of play happening and generally are of service to the golfers. We were on […]
I am grateful that I have not been wildly successful in any area of my life. The Saudi’s are not trying to buy my image to gain some undeserved respect. I am a spectacularly mediocre golfer. No movie moguls are attempting to make more money off of me. I do […]
It’s difficult to figure out the beauty of a flower by understanding fertilizer. There are well educated people who argue over whether our existence happened by random molecular chance from the Big Bang Theory or we are a Creation of Intelligent Design? The most accurate solution is “We don’t know”. […]
I attended a Tibetan Buddhist Workshop on Death and Dying. This was facilitated by Murshida (movewithmurshida.com) at a retreat center in East San Diego County. In addition to extensive meditation and yoga we were taught the Phowa Course of Buddhist teachings of our spiritual existence. My takeaway so […]
Since the early 1990’s I have participated in a mythopoetic men’s drumming and story-telling group. We are the Wide Sky Men’s Council. Sometime in the early 90’s we were visited by an African Medicine Man who went by the name Patrice Malidoma Some’. He had recently completed a pHd at […]
Grief, high blood pressure, My best friend passed on, Bonded for 64 years Teen age troubles and joys Gone forever Whatever forever is All in Divine Right Order God’s got us all where we ought to be Challenges and changes Equally for you and me. High blood pressure challenged me, […]
It’s 3:00 in the morning at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. 225 people have been in this conference room since 9:00 AM with a couple of breaks. I am alternating between nodding out and bright joy. The leader has been engaging us in discussions about how we know what we […]
4:00 AM, New Years Eve, World Meditation for Peace Sponsored by Lakewood’s “Living Beyond Limits” Zoom Event, Open to Everyone, Quietly Contemplating Peace, For All, Including those 6 people that hate me, for good reason, And will not talk to me, Of course those that I will not talk to […]