Musings

Crazytown is not a place…but a state of mind. It is a spinning, swirling, unsettling experience of not knowing where to put our energy, what to trust in, […]

I can’t handle rough ocean waves…I never have been able to tolerate the surges…so surfing the big ones is out for me, as is deep water fishing and […]

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of […]

I have been writing to you often lately…much more frequently than in years past. It is my way of responding to the chaos of our time, the constancy […]

My new book is now here 🙂 and this work…one of beauty, goodness and excellence, began in many ways over a decade ago, when my eyes began to […]

The landscape around me looks nothing like this today – it is frozen with ice and snow packed hard from constant wind and storm. Each step these days […]

In two weeks, I am joining guests at the beautiful Kripalu Yoga Center to explore how/why we build a sense of happiness when the world is difficult, or […]

It is an unremarkable day here in the Northeast. Grey sky. Dull snow. Holiday lights dimmed or packed away in tissue paper older than my grandmother’s tea set. […]

Imagine a year in which we take our lives by the hand, shape them such that they more accurately and kindly reflect who we are, and at the […]

You would think, after all the sci-fi, post-apocalyptic, zombie-invading, virus-spreading, evil alien movies I have absorbed I would know exactly how to handle life when things become impossible. […]