When I am grateful for small things, like a beautiful day or the song of a bird, I become a magnet for more and greater experiences for which to be grateful. When we just pause a moment and observe the beauty that surrounds us, our life changes dramatically. We are usually so bent on getting [...]
I cannot think two thoughts at the same time. I choose the thoughts that take me higher; thoughts based on love and what is going right in the world - mine and the one around me. In any given moment, no matter how dire the circumstances, the political nonsense, the economic struggle, the personal challenges, [...]
We can’t ask for or expect peace in the world when we can’t claim it for ourselves. Today, I pause and create space for the calm that leads to peace. Peace, like happiness, is an inside job. It's not about them. It's about us. You and me and what is going on inside our heads, [...]
Here and now are the only compass points by which we are truly able to navigate. All else is in the abundant play of infinite possibility. If I stop writing and go for a walk, what series of incidents will play out and differ from if I stop writing, go make coffee, and see what [...]
Each morning here on the island of Aegina in Greece, I open the white metal shutters of our bedroom and press them back against the bisque coloured stucco. They are secured with black iron hinges shaped like ‘S’s that swing up and keep them from blowing and banging in the breezes off the sea below. [...]
It’s WONDER. There is a fast ferry between Aegina Island where I live and the port of Pireaus in Greece, but I prefer the slow boat any day. It is a super, guilt-free, time to have an ipnaki (nap) or if we take our hotspot, to catch up on emails and such. On the ferry [...]
Sleep deprivation is so common that many take it for granted. But sleep is the period of restoration of the body, integration of the past day’s events in the mind in dreaming (even if you don’t recall them) and opening of the spirit to access the vast reservoir of consciousness that guides us to our [...]
"You don’t have to be a wreck. You don’t have to be sick. One’s aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out." ~ Jeanne Moreau Age is a state of mind that the body believes. Too often that belief is that the body will inevitably betray [...]
Living the Dream vs Visiting the Dream A number of people have said to me lately something along the lines 'good on you for living the dream'. From my makeshift desk at a maktak covered table, seated on a most uncomfortable folding chair, I can indeed look out the sliding glass doors that comprise the [...]
