“Whether a woman is efficient or brilliant in spheres hitherto deemed masculine, or whether she remains in a traditionally feminine role, modern woman must discriminate and relate to the image of the spirit, while at the same time maintaining her roots in her basic feminine nature — that which receives…

When the pandemic first hit and we quickly sheltered-in-place here in the San Francisco Bay Area, I started walking. A lot. Trying to find a way to make up for not going to the gym. I tend to love a good, hot, sweaty cardio session, sometimes upward of an hour…

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. — Pablo Neruda 25 years: Living into an Uncertain Future At around 4:00 pm on the day he died (at around 4:00 am), I didn’t think I could live. It was hard to breathe. …

Sunlight streaming in as you and I move. Together. In sync. Our breath grows more alive. Reaches up from the belly where something else begins to sound. And then, I feel Her. Deep wailing. Her children are suffering. All of Her children are suffering. She is grieving. Her tears flow…

“…the most beautiful thing a potter produces is…the potter.” ~Matthew Fox

“The God whom I know dwells quietly in the root system of the very nature of things.” — Parker J. Palmer It is 2002. I’m sitting on a bench, just outside the Peet’s Coffee in Berkeley that sits directly across from the Claremont Resort. It is a beautiful spot in…

Healing the Violence in Our World Each of us is alive with a beating heart. Each of us sees the beauty of this world. Each of us knows pain and suffering, compassion and joy. Each of us is connected to something greater than ourselves even if we cannot name it. What is it that beats your…

Learning to live our Essential Nature through a Very Human Body. “Léon Wurmser once defined creativity as ‘the heroic transcendence of shame’ (The Mask of Shame pg 291). To the extent that one is the very best at something or that one strives to be the best, one risks alienation from the remainder of humanity. In some cultures, Wurmser pointed out…

“In reality, though, speech is not a delivery system — it is a means of discovery. It enables a speaker to give spontaneous, tangible form to her thoughts and feelings.” Philip Shepherd, Radical Wholeness Grrrrr. Grrrrr. There’s a big vat of stubbornness here. I won’t let go. I don’t want to let…