Over the last weeks we did a lot of walking together. Taking a first step to break out from wherever we were stuck and taking the second step – one Continue Reading
Taking a Breather
I’m very much pro-breath. In Yoga I learned that we were always to move with our breath, never hold our breath. In life, even more so. Listening to Continue Reading
Crossing Bridges
OK. We’re on the road again – you can even hear that song playing in the background. One step, two steps...walk backwards. Skip a little for fun and Continue Reading
Mix Things Up by Retro-Walking
We’re moving right along so it’s time for something different – or maybe for you it’s not. It’s not trite to say the even something you may have been Continue Reading
The Second or Next Step
Been thinking about my last essay – “Take a Step” – and realized that often the first step isn’t that hard. A person can psych her/him- self into Continue Reading
Take a Step
Another New Year. You sigh, “Yeah, right, sure. Who you kidding? More fun and games, more wars, lies, and BIGLY court cases dragging on and on.” And Continue Reading
Cycles: From Darkness into Light
I was thinking about my last essays; I’m sure they were influenced by my friend’s stay in the hospital and his passing. I was already feeling down Continue Reading
Being Aware and Making Your Choice
I’m guessing many if not most of us have gone through periods of time where we’re confronted with one challenge after another and it feels as if a Continue Reading
Reaching Out
It’s tough out there. Depression is all too easy: just read the newspaper any day. Death and destruction wherever you look. Political trials and Continue Reading
Tragedy in the Middle East… Sarajevo Revisited
I wrote an essay about “Sarajevo,” a saxophone quartet composed by Guillermo Lago, a couple of years ago. I heard it performed again last week at a Continue Reading
Life’s Perfect Storms
Please read on for a couple of minutes – it takes time for a perfect storm to build up. Turns out I was prophesizing last week when I wrote about Continue Reading
Fighting Hate with Hate Solves Nothing
You think you’ve a big pothole on your street? Hey, let me tell you about some of mine. Here in Dairyland there are potholes big enough to bury a cow. Continue Reading