An Arm and a Leg
I’d give an arm and a leg. In the offbeat film, Don Juan DeMarco, Johnny Depp’s character, Don Juan, asked...
Posts about Authenticity
Becoming the Dream
I held a nest of dreams, waiting for Life to crack through. As the eggs incubated, I ruminated. Focused outwardly, it took...
Discernment
Discernment often comes unexpectedly. In the moment: Our vision is sharper. Our hearing is keener. Our knowing is unquestionable. This is...
Javelina
Pretty little Javelina (Ha-ve-LEE-na) waltzed in, painted sky blue. She fooled me. With such a beautiful name, and dressed in...
Soul Parts
Once saved, always saved, was a common theme of my childhood faith tradition. There is another kind of lost-ness, here...
Skinny Buffalo
Skinny Buffalo or Bison’s abundance, it was my choice. She was fixated on convincing me to wear the wintery house shoes...
Shift in Awareness
There may come a time when a traumatic event catalyzes your life. Living through the experience, with prayerful intention, not...
In the Dark
Moving deeper, toward True Self, often requires confronting things we discern in the dark. Authenticity and fear frequently respond to...
Presence
Appropriate vulnerability vitalized her influence. Because she had a sense of being one with the greater whole, she was unencumbered,...
Free Birds
I could hear the pounding of her feet on the sand as she ran through the desert. Soon she would...
Alienated Parts
Continued from Mourning: Our alienated parts cry out and we admit a sense of powerlessness. We persist forward, asking for help,...
Mourning
I once quietly boasted about the ways I denied my ego, until I realized that those acts of martyrdom were...