The experience newly born through a fulcrum – perhaps a ‘simple’ touch – can become quite simply an absolute origin, an origin of consciousness. In times of great discoveries, a fulcrum can be the seed of a world.
Read MoreThis time we’re in calls for a world-wide upwelling of compassion.
Read MoreWe know why the caged bird sings and the uncaged as well. It’s in our nature. Without it is a life without soul.
Read MoreShe came back. There were rumors as to what had happened…
Read MoreWe all suffer from “reality fatigue”. However, as our dreams show us nightly, we are capable of imagining and, as history has shown, of inhabiting many different realities. It is fatiguing to live just in this one time and space, this waking world of 2021…
Read Moreit seems all we can do is tell ourselves stories about what’s real, hoping our stories carry enough of the truth that we can navigate our ways through life.
Read MoreThe gift that is just consumed is a commodity – giver-to-receiver. The gift that is truly given “moves” and carries spirit along. Giver – receiver – giver – receiver – until it may arrive back at its origin. Ultimately the deepest gifts move in a circle.
Read MoreWe do our work with our hands and almost equally with our eyes. The role of the eyes in massage and bodywork is essential to the presence of thought-fulness in our touch.
Read MoreGod created the child, that is , your wanting, so that it might cry out, so that milk might come…
Read MoreNorth American cicadas spend 17 years underground, as “nymphs”. Cicadas have evolved organs enabling them to dig up to the surface. Once above ground, they emerge from their exoskeletons with beautiful wings and soon begin singing their melodious, loud songs.
Read MoreA powerful song written by Silvio Rodríguez, widely considered Cuba’s best folk singer-songwriter, leader of the Nueva Trova movement for equal justice in Cuba.
Read MoreDuring lockdown, the reassurance of touch with and for animals brought me, and I think many others, hope and a heightened connection to all living things…
Read MoreScreaming, especially with joy, in this temple, on this planetary playground, makes perfect sense!
Read MoreWe can all think back and recall moments in our lives that have had enduring influence in our whole lives. These moments act as magical “fulcrums” which live within our conscious and unconscious forever.
Read MoreFrom 1970 through 1977, the Whole Earth Center in Evanston, Illinois was in many ways a life center for me and many others…
Read MoreFrom the nerve cell, to turbulent particles, to self-growth, to evolution itself, saltation represents a kind of saving grace enabling the transmission of change over chasms in time and space as we move through natural, historical and individual life.
Read More“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words…”
Emily Dickinson
Underneath our skin are second “skins”, deeper layers of body and mind. Underneath the surface of our consciousness there is the subconscious mind. Underneath the first layer of feelings and sensations, live deeper emotions and sensations.
Read MoreWhat really is a nerve? We know its basic anatomy and physiology, but how can we see it in a broader context, transmitting information and energy not only within but also between us?
Read More“Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.”
― Rosa Luxemburg