If you’re not used to listening to your heart, it can seem like a real mystery. Or at least it did to me. Sometime after I entered my 30s, I became deeply despondent about life. I was struggling with the dual challenges of being unhappily single and …
It’s easy to look at what other people are doing and think you’re failing, or defective, or somehow just wrong; what’s hard is to listen to your own heart, and to trust it. I spent most of my early 30s secretly wondering if there was something …
In Native American cultures giving was a way of life. They made generosity a tribal value and created ceremonies and rituals to weave it into the fabric of daily living. If you had a baby, you were expected to give away your best horses. If you were …
They say when someone close to you dies, you’ll grieve the loss forever, and the depth and duration of your sadness shows how much you loved the person. Experience tells me you can go on loving a person long after they’re gone, but you have to …
If Earth is a school for souls, and I believe that it is, Covid has been like the fire drill that shook everybody up. We were all sitting in class as usual when the alarm sounded and we had to head for the doors in emergency mode. Now we’re slowly …
If you’re a human walking around on this planet, there are two parts of you. These parts are physically demonstrated by your brain. It has two sides, the left and the right, and they each have different worldviews. The left brain lives through …
I know. The Amazon is burning and hurricanes are happening, so do plastic bags still matter? I had the same thought when I started to write this, but I think the most powerful thing we can do in the face of large-scale disasters is look at our own …
I’ve started several new personal projects in the last year, from writing blog posts and (gasp) sharing them to painting on my own rather than in a class with a teacher. From the outside this looks like solitary work, but on the inside I have a …
