To gaze upon the Dawn (07/28/2020)

Keep it UP or keep it shut … (07/28/17)

“How dramatically your life would shift if one day you simply decided to walk away from all gossip and verbal defamation … Let today be that day…Speak only the good you know of other people, and encourage others to do the same.” ~ via Steve Maraboli

To make a better place … (07/27/16)

The news headlines are really getting to be be a bummer these days — downright depressing, actually … Drone strikes in the Middle East inspiring terrorist strikes closer to home, corrupt politicians buying elections in a now-defunct democracies, thousands of innocent animals needlessly tortured & murdered every day by otherwise Good People who callously look […]

How LOVE awakens … (07/27/17)

  “Love is the condition in which the Happiness of another person is essential to our own … Indeed, we have each been endowed with a truly beautiful heart. We may not always see it, and we may not even believe it’s there.  And yet it’s a gift that came with our birth and, at […]

the Great Beauty just beneath … (07/26/17)

Time to talk Bigger … (07/25/2021)

Empowering true Giving … (07/25/17)

“Practice giving things away, not just things you don’t care about, but things you care about a great deal as well. After all, it is not the size of a gift that matters, but rather its quality and the amount of mental attachment the giver must overcome during its giving … And most important of […]

Ode to St. Susana … (07/24/2021)

Our one true Job … (07/24/17)

“We don’t make children happy when we simply enable them to be receivers of kindness.  We escalate their feelings of true happiness, improve their well-being, reduce bullying, enrich their friendships, and build lasting peace by teaching children to be givers of kindness.” ~ Marilyn Price-Mitchell

Waking UP to Caring … (07/24/12)

Actually, while the capacity to Care is pretty amazing and a fantastic Gift with which we have all been blessed, it is what sometimes follows that is the true miracle … More than the ability to Care, it is the actual act of Caring that gives your life its deepest Meaning. Love is Caring for […]

Healing the past, Wholeness in the Now … (07/23/12)

We carry our wounds with us — those wounds from our young days; those wounds that never seem to heal. Rest assured, every fear you have, every desire you feel, every criticism you relay, every judgment you inflict — they all come from wounds received many moons before now. We could release them, of course, […]