Recently the World Central Kitchen (WCK) hit a milestone, they have served over 100M+ meals. Led by Chef Jose Andres WCK is about serving meals after disaster strikes, their core motto brings tears to my heart, “Wherever there’s a fight so hungry people may eat, we will be there – we must be there.” This…

Take a moment to go inward, opening to a vision of your life as yet unexperienced, a vision for something born of pure wisdom of one who knows nothing, a vision that awaits the simple, quiet act of becoming absolutely still in the complete presence of love. Seek only to find perfect stillness, remaining in quiet gratitude. For…

A thing or two on Covid 19. I’d rather not have any folks die. Period. Full stop. End of story. So, here I sit, loving everyone, loving everyone, for reel, taking breaths and holding folks who are at risk in my heart and  loving my neighbors and extending my heart, expanding the opportunity for art…

It’s hard to say how tall she is but when she enters a room she radiates presence like a grand tower, determined and kind, ever ready with a smile. At a commanding 6’0” it’s looking up time to receive a smile imbued by a confidence at having seen it all and an elegance born of the…

America Ferrera Ted Talks The Power of Self Love “My identity is not an obstacle — it’s my superpower,” says America Ferrera onstage at TED2019. Loving Yourself. Expanding Your Field of Possibilities and Living Authentically. Every career in the arts is full of tough lessons, as by its very nature you are inviting judgement in…

Love is a choice. Everyone who is pointing fingers, judging, blaming, etc. who knows better who feels the blood memories of our troops, our warriors, our families and our neighborhoods, anyone who understands that communities, our world are eco-systems. We all breathe the air, drink water, plant seeds in soil, in which we nourish ourselves…

It is clear in the world today, in each moment, we have the opportunity to move toward love or only see illusions. Free will is a principle in the worlds of spirituality, physics and throughout the human universe in general, like gravity. We have free will. Which means we have a choice. In each situation…

Every year I go to the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, CA to bare witness and mourn what fear + anger inflicts on so many families and to remind my broken heart, we are stronger in those broken places when we remember and return to love. Healing is forgiving it isn’t forgetting. Today as…

So often the use of the bridge that Jesus is and represents gets exploded in the words, energies, and seething anxieties fostered by fear. The idea of winning in this day and age in the public square comes to mean something entirely different than was intended. We as citizens, as people, as humans, as occupiers…

As you know we are often writing prayers of comfort to those in need and in the 17 years since the events of 9/11 we have cried tears of loss. Today, when I saw this poem, The Dead of September 11, by Toni Morrison a new way of being on this day emerged. It is a day…

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