Your Halloween Costume

Your Halloween Costume

What are you gonna be for Halloween? Who are you going to dress up as? Masks and costumes. Parties and planning. Fervor, festivities, and fever pitch. Bigger than Christmas it seems. What is it about Halloween that so excites, that so sparks the imagination?...
You Want This Superpower

You Want This Superpower

In a world saturated with noise, distractions, and the constant pull of technology, the act of genuinely listening has become a rare art. Mark Nepo, in his insightful book 7,000 Ways to Listen, offers a profound perspective on the essence of listening. He states,...
Start and See What Happens

Start and See What Happens

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. — Goethe It didn’t matter that I had sealed the seams.  Or that we had a tub floor.  Or that I had put a tarp over the site.  Water was everywhere. The...
The Secret Recipe

The Secret Recipe

Brené Brown, in her beautiful book The Gifts of Imperfection, has a wonderful exercise: List your “ingredients for joy and meaning,” she instructs. It’s a powerful exercise because, for most of us, the ingredients are pretty simple; and they don’t cost...
Achieve No Thing

Achieve No Thing

Achieve nothing.  Kind of like jumbo shrimp. As I stretched out for my run the other morning, I began to read an article in the Buddhist publication Tricycle on the spiritual pitfalls of multi-tasking. Tricycle is an excellent quarterly filled with...