“Slow down, you move too fast. You got to make the mornin’ last. Just skippin’ down the cobblestones, Lookin’ for fun & feelin’ groovy.” ~ Simon & Garfunkel It can be a crazy world … Lots to do, obligations to fulfill, bills to pay, relationships to tend … At times it can be somewhat overwhelming. […]
SAVING the EARTH: Step ONE Happy Earth Day, my Friends! In honor of our beautiful planet — a Home we are currently destroying and dirtying at an alarming rate, I suggest that today we all DO SOMETHING to help. And what I am offering is a much easier solution than many of those […]
“The River is famous to the fish. The loud voice is famous to Silence, which Knew it would inherit the Earth … The tear is famous, briefly, to the cheek … I want to be famous to shuffling men who smile while crossing streets, to sticky children in grocery lines; famous as the one who […]
“We’re so self-important. Everybody’s going to save something now. Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails. And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. Save the planet?! We don’t even know how to take care of ourselves … The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been […]
“What if it doesn’t matter what you do but rather how you do whatever you do? How would this change what you do with your everyday life? What if you could be more fully present and open-hearted working as a cashier in the corner store; able to really see and be with the people there, […]
It is easy to care for those who are far away. And it is often difficult to Love those close to us. It often seems we would rather give a cup of rice to relieve hunger on a distant shore than give a cup of actual Caring to relieve the thirst for intimacy that exists […]
Don’t get me wrong, my Friends … It is more than reasonable to be afraid these days — very afraid. *You cherish health, and yet your medical system profits from your continued illness — prescribing medicines that give more negative side effects than they do relief. *You cherish freedom, and yet your government has erased […]