I remain happily lost in the mystery of living… I spent last night at the Sheraton JFK so that i could catch a 6:55 AM flight to Mexico. A 9-day ‘writing retreat’ that will certainly result in a fair bit of writing, but, if we’re being honest, is really my biannual excuse to sit in […]

Now it’s official! It has been whispered by the wise for millennia. Life has just released the entry price: Courage and Commitment are the price to keep the state of your mind set to “free”. If you paste this message on your Facebook page, it will do nothing. If you embody it, it’s the proverbial […]

Carly’s case is of course both unusual and extreme….but from what I see, her condition is not qualitatively different from yours or mine. No one knows what it’s like to be in our body, no one can see what we see or sense what we sense. Our reality is, by it’s nature, a private reality. (continued below […]

As a follow-up to my last post, The Weed Economy, here’s a story from the Hindu tradition: Guha was a barbarian hunter. He hunted in the forest with great skill. He was one with the tangled underbrush, cousin to the monkey and the tiger. The priests in the city thought it was their duty to […]

In addition to (or perhaps instead of?) goals/resolutions for the year, what is your melody for the year? Is it tight enough that you can actually play/sing it……but at the same time not so tight as to eliminate the possibility of improvisation? You don’t need the whole song, just the root melody; a few simple ‘notes’ […]