Welcome my fellow soulful travelers of October! As the leaves don their vibrant autumn attire and the air carries a delightful chill, I feel a little more alive during this transformative season. Let's embark on a contemplative adventure together! Welcoming Transformation with Open Arms: Feeling Alive and Open There is magic in October – a […]
The book I finished last week was "Hello Summer" by Mary Kay Andrews. As the title suggests it is a beach novel. I read it in the few days leading up to and our weekend on the beach at Assateague Island National Seashore.What piqued my interest originally was the fact that the main character is […]
To me, they mean the beginning of summer along with beach towels, sunblock, watermelons, and my favorite, strawberries and whipped cream. I get my berries from all over.
I wanted to share with you something that has helped me on the path of leaving fear and self-doubt behind.
Every time something negative happens, I can feel the clouds gather in my mind's eye. I then know, it's time to focus on the ray of sun, however faint it may seem. I strive to get ahead of the impending darkness that is about to cast its shadows on my feeble mindset. The thunderstorm mindset […]
"The key to changing our ways depends on rekindling our relationship with food, family, community and nature."
It's not hard to see that in every culture, food has long played a dual physical and spiritual role. Connecting with food means a connection with source. The source being earth, being spirit and sharing of gratitude and abundance.
Hygieia in greek as well in Roman mythology was the goddess of health. She had four sisters: Panacea, goddess of universal remedy, Aceso, goddess of the healing process, Aglaea, goddess of beauty and adornment, and Laso, goddess of recuperation from illness. The oldest traces of her cult are at Titane, west of Corinth but she […]
Mankind has struggled against various illnesses and ailments throughout history. The use of plans for healing and beauty is as old as ancient civilizations as evidenced by preserved documents, monuments, and gravesites. These ancient herbal and plant-based medicinal discoveries were largely instinctive and experimental. In time, such experiential plant use became founded in explicit facts. Up until the […]
"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads." —Henry David Thoreau Can you appreciate a mild Autumn evening where your family and a few neighbors collect around the fire-pit, under a clear starry night with hot dogs and smores? Do you find peace and serenity after wandering the rough, wooded trails of […]
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. Arthur Ashe Simplify, Multi-task, streamline, tune, and perfect It seems to me, that the more you focus on becoming flawless, proficient, and practiced at a task, the more boring it gets. We then complain about how mindless and meaningless […]
While everyone seems to agree that all human beings innately possess creativity, people generally struggle to understand how exactly to keep or cultivate it. There are a number of experts and a plethora of information in books, media, and internet discussing the various methods to promote our creativity directly, but I prefer to bring attention to those who call us to examine the cause(s) of why we might not possess it or why we often feel we have lost it.
To find yourself, think for yourself" -Socrates If we indiscriminately allow the external world to overpower our inner workings, we are at risk of losing our way. Others, in turn, are deprived of our best and most valuable "inventions", qualities, contributions, opinions, and ideas. It's often those ideas that have great value to improve the […]
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. -Immanuel Kant How do we achieve what is good? There are no rules for applying knowledge to a given situation you are experiencing here and now. The "right reason" can vary from one occasion to another. Proving one view against another is not possible by argument alone. […]
Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good. Although there is very little historically sound information regarding his life, we know that the Buddha was just one of the many philosophers of his time. Yet he became one of the people […]
