Essays on Living
Welcome!
Life is full of questions that rarely have simple answers.
In these essays, I explore many of the challenges we face as human beings—from relationships and family patterns to creativity, nature, purpose, and the lifelong process of becoming more fully ourselves.
My hope is that these reflections encourage you to pause, think deeply, and perhaps discover new possibilities for creating a healthier, more fulfilling life.
I invite you to browse, reflect, and join me on this journey.
Opportunities in the Time of the Coronavirus
Hidden Opportunitiesin the Time of the Coronavirus:Breathing, resting, and visioning new ways of Being in our lives. So here we are, in the midst of a pandemic. Could you have ever imagined such a thing!?Not me! A tiny little virus has brought humanity to its knees...
Your Authentic Self
Hello everyone! Even though we are now in February, Valentine's Day is next Saturday and thus the theme of Relationship is on a lot of our minds, and in my October post I had mentioned that I would have been soon moving along in my exploration of the I-...
Amo Ergo Sum
"If we did not have our wounds to heal and we only had the Beauty of Life, we would become static and immobile in the ephemeral enjoyment of Beauty" - Antonio Mercurio Here we are, in the holiday season, and at the...
Pain as a Cosmic Force ….. to Create New Love, Beauty, Truth and Freedom!
This has been an incredible summer for me, to put it mildly. Full of loss and cleansing and shifting .... and now, all kinds of wonderful, new things are emerging. How are you? I hope you are doing well, and if you are one of the people who had a real time of it this...
Expectations: how they shape us, and how we can transform them
Good morning, friends. Today I want to share something I heard about a few weeks ago while in the car. I was listening to NPR's This American Life and I heard a segment (click here to read the transcript of the show) about studies done on how expectations, how what we...
Only Love can Placate our Deepest Needs
Changing our Definition of Love - First of All Towards Ourselves (This is the first part in a series on Love) I find myself pondering, often, over the plight of us human beings who are so desperately searching for that "something" that will fill us up and make us...
