Awake-ness is a function of aliveness, of our connection to the present. Do not fall asleep. Do not fall asleep. Do not fall asleep. We need you in all your radiance. WAKE UP There is a garden flourishing brilliantly within the grounds of your being. We nourish this with love. Every offering in this space…

To Love and be loved is so basic to our beings it is necessary fuel that nourishes our hearts and creates connection. It’s always a great time of the year to count our blessings, to remind each other that love is an everyday choice we make to consider the possibility there is another way, to…

… Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and die.” Love is the nourishment of the soul. Shakespeare delivering the best and the worst of it. For me, there is a soundtrack ever playing along to my life, I cherish the way it serves my soul and lightens my mood and…

There is a saying ‘you do not ask for too much, you ask for too little.’ ASK to be a blessing to those you meet, ask to share your gifts, ask to be the best, most loving expression of the heart. Pray with grace. Expect miracles. Next 100 | Day 65 | Prayer is the…

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…

Consider the possibility there is another way to look at everything, with love. Enjoy a day full of love, full of looking at the world with loving thoughts for yourself, for your neighborhood, for you community, for your family and for you work in the world. Love unconditionally and with an open heart. Enjoy yourself…

She meant so much to so many. Her spirit soared through her voice to lift us all up, to connect us and to bring us the steely determination of what it meant to be a powerful, purpose filled woman, sharing her gifts with the world. May Aretha be surrounded in grace, may her spirit deeply…

Dance and Activism as a loving movement. No artist of the 20th century bridged so many of the arts like Martha Graham. She was and remains a trendsetter, an inspiration to the psyche of performance and artistry and connection. She created pathways of understanding that transcended her main vocation – that of a dancer and…

Been thinking a lot about personal responsibility, as the news trumpets on, and life marches forward and as change is constant and the ways we could complain endless. We have the opportunity right now to assume any position we want to assume, why not choose Love?   Take a stance of compassionate grace in your…

The miracle isn’t getting what it is you think you are praying for, a miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love.  Nothing changes your loving makes the change. Faith and Love practiced in the present bring us into the miracle of our days. Life’s gifts arrive as they are needed with the closest…

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