True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.  –George Washington Washington was a passionate gardener and spent many hours tending such at his home in Mount Vernon.  A man who did what was necessary and lead an army of…

When I started Love Land it was for one reason, to complete a promise from a voice that would not quit, repeating over and ever from that inner space of hearing … For the next 100 days… I am going to consider the possibility that there is another way. I won’t talk about war, I…

What do Epiphanies have in common? They are openings in the chaotic projection of daily life.  They are awakenings to the truth of the authentic self. As the world makes a shift We need a space to remember Great moments happen in the instant of saying yes. Remain awake with me to the deeper truth…

Listen to your heart, Make loving attempts at kindness and forgiveness. “Break open your personal idea of yourself to taste the story of the nutmeat soul. Voices come from that rattling against the outer shell. The nut and the oil inside have voices that can only be heard with another kind of listening. If it…

“The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love” William Sloane Coffin, Jr. chaplain of Yale University I strongly hold you in my heart, soulfully breathing in and out, radiating happiness, dancing in the truth, drinking deeply from the cup of life.  Singing my song.   Instead, speaking…

What story are you telling yourself right now? If it is something less than a grand magnificent story about how amazing you are and that your needs are important. It is time to change it. You are not your circumstances. You are full potentiality. You are full possibility. You are who you are. Be that.…

Love transcends every faith and spiritual background and to my mind even those atheist’s out there can agree on the language of the heart. We get it like we get that the Grinch’s heart grows at the simplest kindness of a small child, the way Scrooge comes to understand a life of giving is a…

There are a lot of things we want to happen in our life.  Ideas and opportunities are always rushing towards us. A loving daily practice greases the wheels to a life filled with joy.  Understanding how to deeply receive what someone is offering brings you into the heart of every matter. I have loved a…

Let love be an antidote to the expression of fear that lives and breathes in the world. Interrupt the pattern with the conviction of love. Get comfortable with the mechanism of magnificence always available that doesn’t care if you fall down, only that you shake it off and get up and begin again.  Falling is…

Whenever you feel the creeping tension of stress in your shoulders after hours spent working, hunched into your computer. Take a break. A Dance break. Pick your favorite dance tune or enjoy Pharrell Williams HAPPY (3PM) — “Dance is communication and the great desire is to speak clearly and beautifully and with inevitability. And this…

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