The Bible offers two notable examples of friendships. The first is that between Jonathan and David, in which Jonathan walks a slender tightrope between his loyalty to his friend David and his devotion to his father Saul. The second is that between Ruth and Naomi, which gives us the beautiful verse that has been adopted…

It doesn’t matter. Like Mary Oliver said in her poem Wild Geese “you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves” and if it loves Ducks, so be it, get yourself some ducks and put them in your back yard and feed them and love them and give them…

As I stopped to ask a woman “How was your Thanksgiving” with the requisite “What did you do?” I got a surprise answer. She said she delivered Christmas Gifts to her nephew. I asked  “Why so early?” She responded “My Sister, his Mother, died recently and suddenly – she was 52 – I decided why…

Even after all this time The sun never says to the earth, “You owe Me.” Look what happens with A love like that, It lights the Whole Sky. ~Hafez ~ From: The Gift ~ Read more about Hafez here. Get out there and shine for no reason.

The deepest most intense form of living and loving is listening to your intuition.  Staying open in this field of possibility allows us to be used by universal purpose. Four words A way of being A listening at the deepest level Balance and Harmony Love and Light The way To bare witness To the truth We all…

Your light and your dark, your mistakes and your triumphs, your false steps and your fabulous leaps, your abilities and your inabilities, your failures and your successes make you perfectly you. With the Earth’s population numbers passing seven billion people. As we lose the night heavens to urban light sources and the forever creeping development…

Welcome to the Flight of the Soul poetry readings with everyone’s favorite poetry loving dog Ginger.. No matter who is reading Mary Oliver’s The Journey it resonates with the truth expelling doubts and uncertainty while joining the reader in the truth… its impact taught and tender, The Journey’s inner light glows brightly guiding the listener…

When your heart is alternately breaking and expanding with equal beats in a rhythm of truth you are fully alive, bearing witness to the events of our days. Occupy Wallstreet continues to amaze me in what it is bringing to light about the state of America. Listen to the sounds in the wake of this movement. Listen…

“Thank You for keeping us safe. Thank you for your service to our country. Thank you for saving us from danger.” One after the other the letters written by children from a neighborhood Elementary School were delivered to the wounded soldiers recovering at a local Veteran’s Hospital. “Dear Veteran… Dear Mr. Soldier… Dear Service Women……

Let the truth open you up. Let what you see in your mind’s eye radiate into reality. Let everything now and forever become an unstoppable force of full potentiality. As Werner Erhard said “you can live your life out of your circumstances or you can live your life out of vision.” Have a vision. It…

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