How does anyone stay safe in this country anymore? I wondered Thursday morning, upon seeing news of the Thousand Oaks shooting. Thousand Oaks. It’s a place where I’ve visited friends, to where I once considered moving. A quiet, polished, picture-perfect suburb tucked in the valley inland of the Santa Monica mountains, north of Los Angles. Needless to say, this one […]
I can’t. I won’t. It’s not possible. I don’t know how to. It doesn’t work. Resistance. It’s a dragon. A monster. A fear-baiter. And sometimes an ally. Resistance stops the haters from feeling the love in their hearts. Says I’d rather hate you than feel my own pain. Call me a racist. I don’t care. I will stay safe. I’d […]
We seek it. We hunger for it. And yet often we give up on it. Betrayed by past failures. Or cynical about the state of the world. But we need it. To stay vital. To feel the spark of life. All of us. We do. And it is love. And it can be really hard to feel at times. We […]
Chances are if you are reading this, you may have been upset at the Kavanaugh confirmation. The same could be true of many moves of the current administration and congress. You many have asked many times, How do Trump supporters keep supporting Trump? And Trump supporters asking, Why do liberals hate us so much? The U.S. is imploding, it seems. […]
Wow, men are fucked up, I thought as I watched the Kavanaugh-Ford hearing. And now he’s confirmed. Shame and anger were Kavanaugh’s weapons of discourse. Damn, he’s talking to us like we are children. “This is a national disgrace… you should be ashamed.” Blah, blah, blah…. And his Republican cronies continued the tirade of shame. Listening, I felt like a little […]
The voices are within… strong and yet depleting… you don’t want to show up… you don’t want to go to work… you don’t want to do anything… You have nothing to say…. Nothing matters… But you need to speak your voice… You have to create something for your blog… People are counting on you… those that seek a deeper inquiry… […]
“I have a great life. People I love. A home by the mountains. A full refrigerator.” A client speaks. I listen. “And then there’s this hunger for more… an itch, a longing for better connection at work, more free time to travel, more presence with myself, more time with my family, a new car, a flush retirement fund and… as […]
I’m an expert…. an expert at feeling stuck in my life. It seems I can’t just rest in a happy plateau. Always a hunger, a longing, a nagging pulling on me. Can you relate? Do you or have you ever felt stuck in any part of your life? Maybe it’s a job that sucks your soul. A marriage that feels compromised or lifeless. […]
My client Felicia is in her car. Her kids are driving her mad fighting in the back seat. It’s after school. She’s at her wit’s end, compounded by other stresses – a bungled work email, an IRS tax bill she forgot to pay, her husband’s complaint about something earlier that morning. She fears the soccer coach taking it out on […]
“…the dry throat that came from a love you remembered but had never fully wanted for yourself, until finally, after years making the long trek to get here it was as if your whole achievement had become nothing but thirst itself.” – David Whyte, “The Well” I sit for my daily morning practice; often it’s a form of meditation. Thoughts […]
