Is it possible to have compassion for oneself? If we understand compassion as the ability to experience another’s pain, how would it be possible to have compassion for oneself? Don’t we just, well, have our own pain and suffering? How is the notion of compassion for ourselves relevant? Somehow it is. Somehow it must be … Read More
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Ageless Wisdom Practices
Supporting Practices for The Way of Beauty At the risk of sharing “platitudes as insights” as one journalist put it recently, there are three Beauty Practices that are old chestnuts, as my mother used to say. They have been in the culture for a very long time, and certainly have not been identified as “Beauty … Read More
Sweet Solstice Greetings with a bit o’ Summer Beauty
I love the cycle of summer.. … in the kitchen and the art studio Spectacular summer skies Oh the light!
Harmonic Relationships
Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone. … Read More
Shifting Paradigms
How did we get to the point we are at today in our modern western civilization? How did greed, corruption and selfishness become so prevalent? How did our lives get so busy, our frustrations so many, and our sense of contentment and achievement so hard won? We live in an atmosphere charged with the expectancy … Read More