The Iowa Caucus and the collective (inter)national freakout it has fostered provides, like many of life’s challenges, a great opportunity to do our spiritual work around it. Specifically, we can remember What NOT to do in the middle of … [Read more...] about Spiritual Lessons to Draw from the Iowa Caucus
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Well it’s Groundhog Day, Back on the Time Diet
I don't want to let Groundhog Day get too far in the rearview mirror without observing it. First of all, this year Punxsutawny Phil did NOT see his shadow. This is supposed to predict an early spring. Right here in Sacramento … [Read more...] about Well it’s Groundhog Day, Back on the Time Diet
Tradition One for Democrats: Unity–Can We Dems Get Smart about Staying Together?
Can we get smart in the Democratic primary about our common welfare? In a spiritual path that I walk, we have traditions that set the guardrails for our behavior with each other and in all aspects of our lives. We joke that the traditions are … [Read more...] about Tradition One for Democrats: Unity–Can We Dems Get Smart about Staying Together?
Some Brand Spanking New Thing That You’ve Never Heard about Gratitude
Maybe. Here are my top 10 things I'm grateful for about my gratitude practice: Because I choose to be grateful for 20 things every day, I have to look all day to find those thingsBecause I challenge myself for those things to be new and … [Read more...] about Some Brand Spanking New Thing That You’ve Never Heard about Gratitude
Graduate Level Spirituality: Coming to grips with an E.L.F.
Warning: this particular post is graduate level spirituality. Do not advise going directly from feeling resentful and victimized towards everyone every minute of your life without ever doing your own work to now labelling people … [Read more...] about Graduate Level Spirituality: Coming to grips with an E.L.F.
Are you willing to believe that there’s no difference between the political and the spiritual?
How much are your limited thoughts, beliefs, opinions and conclusions driving your view of what is possible in the 2020 presidential election? Whether you feel hate or suspicion towards certain candidates or parties or the entire government or are … [Read more...] about Are you willing to believe that there’s no difference between the political and the spiritual?
Being in the Question not the Answer
I have never been into affirmations, which is heresy where I come from. In my spiritual communities, we say "change your thinking, change your life" (Ernest Holmes) and we affirm what we want to create or attract. Don't get me wrong, I … [Read more...] about Being in the Question not the Answer
What else is possible? How Does it Get Even Better Than this?
In the less than 24 hours since we learned of the U.S. assassination of Iran's Qassem Soleimani, the Twitterverse and my brain has filled with ideas about the "inevitable" retaliation and bad things that could happen from this. And they could, … [Read more...] about What else is possible? How Does it Get Even Better Than this?
How Big is Your Allowance?
A lot of spiritual traditions like to talk about the power of "acceptance," but these days I'm more interested in "allowance" than acceptance. I don't know about you but I remember fondly the allowance that my parents gave me. It wasn't … [Read more...] about How Big is Your Allowance?
Happy/Sad 2019
As 2019 screams to a close, feelings are a mixture about the year. Here's a list of things I'm happy to see go (some personal, some in the world) and those I am so grateful for:Happily letting go of:20 people in a Democratic Primary debate (and … [Read more...] about Happy/Sad 2019
Are you willing to destroy the conclusion that you have to choose between fulfilling your dreams and having a family?
All the thoughts, beliefs, opinions and conclusions that you have had in this lifetime or any lifetime that you had to choose between fulfilling your dreams and having a family, are you willing to destroy and uncreate them all? In this short … [Read more...] about Are you willing to destroy the conclusion that you have to choose between fulfilling your dreams and having a family?
What’s the Difference Between Making a New Year’s Resolutions and Forming a New Habit?
I avoid New Year's Resolutions, but I DO like jump starting a new habit by trying it for 30 days straight. Really what is the difference? Here's how they seem different to me:The very notion of New Year's Resolutions (which I used to … [Read more...] about What’s the Difference Between Making a New Year’s Resolutions and Forming a New Habit?