Some people are skilled at taking the noxious poison out of situations and turning it into fruitful fields. They have the ability to inhale hate and anger and exhale love. Some people step into pressure situations and become the node for calm. Others, like me, disintegrate into dysfunction as pressure mounts. Some…

Our relationship to power, authority and hierarchy are fraught. We have been bent to breaking by giving power and authority to others, often without question or consent. The wounds are real. We must heal these relationships, just as we must heal our relationship with money. Our journey from being a…

Bucky Fuller said love is metaphysical gravity. The glue that holds relationships together, be that the relationship between people, things, our Earth, ourselves, our future and our past. I suspect love is like light. Both a wave and a particle. It is also the field in which the wave and the…

When a woman uses relentless provocation against a man, is she surprised when the male lashes out with force? It takes a very emotionally mature male not to resort to the lizard brain of brute. Almost anyone, male or female, when pushed to the limit, will lash out in the most…

Making a request is not the same as a demand. A request does not hold an expectation that the answer will be yes. A demand holds the expectation that the answer will be yes. Indeed, a demand insists upon it. When we are making a request the precision of our language…

As we evolve towards maturity so does our fear. A childish fear is the monster under the bed. Yet often children throw themselves into precarious situations physically. Fearless. A teen fear could be that we are accepted, liked, seen to be part of the in-group. Of course many carry this…

I am learning to surf, commencing this journey in my 6th decade. I set the intention from the outset to be able to surf on a short board, which is the harder route. Snowboarding, another sport I enjoy, is easier. The mountain doesn’t move as you go down it, or change…