A story from an early “initiation” at Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo.
Read More"Without religion life becomes like a machine without oil, it runs hot, even if its functions, some part of it is always burning out." - Guardini. I don’t believe “religion” but some belief, some hope, is central to our lives feeling meaningful.
Read More“Frogs don't usually swallow water like we do. Instead they absorb most of the moisture they need through their skin.”
Read More“Frogs don't usually swallow water like we do. Instead they absorb most of the moisture they need through their skin.”
Read MoreThis is not a reflection upon the Stone’ new album
Read Morea poem I’ve written in memoriam to Louise Glück, one of the great and most courageous modern American poets
Read More“Tibetans say the greatest hunger is for space.” - Ida Smith
Read MoreWhen I was 16 and Bob Dylan 23, he played a concert with my guitar.
Read MoreEach thought, feeling and touch is the gateway to the bright unknown.
Read More“I need a medical doctor, who also knows Chinese medicine, understands the inextricable connection between body, mind and spirit and who will listen to someone who isn’t a medical doctor. Now where on this earth could I find that person?”
Read MoreIn 1972 I lived in Munich, Germany for a year studying music composition with a composer, Wolf Rosenberg. I rented a room in an apartment on Hohenzollern Strasse, where soon a very “bad guy” moved in.
Read MoreThe blues are a direct form of emotion turned into poetry and song. Most poetry comes from the same place as the blues, it’s a condition of being human, all-to-human in this glorious and troubling world.
Read More“Many hands make light work.” - John Heywood. May we all join our hands in the important work ahead - to nourish each other and our precious planet.
Read Morea selection of photos by Giovanni Pescetto of Dr. Fritz Smith
Read MoreHuman Potential is not a movement; it is an evolutionary obligation. We are the only animal that can evolve itself in one lifetime.
Read MoreThe hand is not only the organ of labour, it is also the product of labour. Only by labour, by adaptation to ever new operations, through the inheritance of muscles, ligaments, and, over longer periods of time, bones that had undergone special development and the ever-renewed employment of this inherited finesse in new, more and more complicated operations, have given the human hand the high degree of perfection required to conjure into being the pictures of a Raphael, the music of a Paganini.
Read MoreThe line, “That phraseless Melody—The Wind does—working like a Hand,” inspired this August newsletter. How can our hands doing bodywork, playing instruments, touching loved ones, in all our gestures embody the graceful spirit that Emily Dickinson evokes here?
Read MoreThe pelvis is the very center of balance, the central inner city of our body, through which our energy flows. Arguably the pelvis is the sexiest place in the body.
Read MoreSo much time is experienced kind of “chronologically” with one day succeeding another, one hour another hour. But in a sustained context of exploring new existential territory, time changes.
Read MoreGOD DOESN’T MESS UP!
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