Category: Self-Reflection

Inner Spaciousness: The Ultimate Frontier

October 1, 2020

When I initially wrote this newsletter, I wrote it inside my apartment mid-September. I was inside a lot of the time. Fires were happening outside […]

100 Days and More To Come

July 1, 2020

Sheltering in place in California. It’s been over 100 days in which I have slept nightly in my OWN bed. Not a common act for […]

We Contain Multitudes

May 1, 2020

Hello from my apartment in Palo Alto, CA, USA. As of the posting of this newsletter, I have been here for 6 weeks. I imagine […]

Into the Woods

April 1, 2020

Since my mother’s death 10 years ago, she has come to me in the form of a bird. Sitting on my balcony railing or on […]

Verbs For My 53rd

March 2, 2020

I am excited. My package of new cool reading glasses from Peepers arrived. I bought some oversized ones that remind me of Iris Apfel! Reading […]

Being Our Best Adult Selves

January 6, 2020

Sometime in the last year I saw a Roz Chast cartoon in The New Yorker that made me not only smile but actually laugh out […]

A Work In Progress

December 2, 2019

A colleague wrote me from Bangkok. He is in ‘start up mode’ with a new school scheduled to start in the new year. He was […]

Seeking Emotional Maturity?

November 1, 2019

When I was 14, I threw a party. It was a terrible party by any standard. There was music and food, but not much else. […]

Don’t Leave Your Longings Unattended

October 1, 2019

If you follow me on Facebook, you have seen my postings that start with “Consultant walks into a bar, Take 1000.” This past week at […]

Step into the Mystery

September 3, 2019

“I step into the day. I step into my life. I step into the mystery. Aho!” I learned this Ojibwe saying at a meditation class. […]