What Happens When You Jump

A great source of my suffering has come from comparing myself to some concept of “standard”.
Also believing that I am outside of, separate from the Universe of All. The sad belief that I was not good enough and needed to somehow become good enough to be allowed in. It has begun to shift. As there [...]

Spring 2008
On the bus from San Miguel de Allende, I sat next to an older woman who had just been in Patzcuaro and suggested where to go when I travel there for my birthday and Dia de los Muertos. Then we discovered that we share the birthdate of November second. How rare.
Today on the bus [...]

Spring 2008
My worry, fear, shame, sadness; my grief, is that I miss 97% of the opportunities that come to me where I could respond differently. I may appear courageous and a victor, but really I have not been doing the work. Or at least not that work; the work of new behavior. I look at [...]

Washing my clothes outside, in the minutes before the inaugeration, a distant trumpet player I’d never heard in these airs play two songs: When the Saints Go Marching In, and the old blues/jazz standard It Ain’t Necessarily So. The Universe was playing in my realm today…these songs reflect some of the possible ways of responding [...]

Winter 2006
What I see is that for so many years I have been aware of my desires and attractions. I have felt the dis ease of my life, mainly the busyness of it and the knowing that I needed much more time that I had to decompress, process, feel, be in connection with myself and [...]