The Journey

The brilliant poem below written by an eleventh grader from Brooklyn, NY is as powerful visual as I’ve ever seen on how our thoughts and words can change everything. Here’s the trick: [...]

“Let the past drift away in the water.” –Japanese saying Water features can put us in a delicious trance – like the fifteen-second video below that I made in a chapel atrium in [...]

This flower caught my eye at sunset the other day. The afternoon light was incredible, and there it was, doing its glorious thing of simply be-ing. I ran for my iPhone, zoomed in, and clicked. [...]

Three years ago, this special bugambilia varietal had no blooms. No matter what I did (new pot, more sun, gentle whispering) it just wouldn’t budge. Until this year, when we returned to our [...]

“Results are what Westerners look for and it messes them up. We practice meditation and work these practices over and over again repetitively because the result only comes from constant rigorous [...]

Can you see us? That’s me (behind the camera) and my husband peeking through a gorgeous staircase in Melk Abbey, Austria – one of the stops of our river trip last fall. Though it looks like [...]

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” –Alan W. Watts. Enjoy this excerpt from A Year to Clear: Realizing a dream, any [...]

“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.” –Henry David Thoreau. In my last five posts I’ve introduced a model for clearing that is infinitely more [...]

“Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson. In my last four posts I’ve introduced a model for clearing that is infinitely more sustainable and [...]

“Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.” –Rashi. Over the past three weeks I’ve introduced a model for clearing that is infinitely more sustainable and lasting [...]