“Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.” ― Andy Warhol Somehow we’ve gotten this weird dichotomy in our heads. On the one had, being an artist takes tons of…
DetailsI have to say that I love Martha Beck’s writing. She’s funny, common sensical, and able to say “don’t do as I did, do what makes sense, because I’m crazy.” Aren’t we all? 🙂 What I really admire about her perspective is that she understands that we are em-bodied spiritual beings having an experience in…
DetailsMy new class is available starting today! Discover Kabbalah and the Tree of Life Kabbalah /’kabələ’/ (קַבָּלָה,“receiving/tradition”) is the living mystical tradition of Judaism. Its roots stretch back to the time of the Torah, the first five books of the Bible’s Old Testament, and to the oral traditions, collected into the Talmud, which predate and…
DetailsWe are spiritual beings living an embodied life. We weren’t forced to come here, karma didn’t require it, we’re not prisoners here waiting for release, we chose this. For a myriad of reasons that fall into categories such as Personal Growth, Service to Others, Exploration, Graduate Studies, Practical Application of Apprenticeship Skills, and so on. …
DetailsAdults just love asking kids that question for some reason. I mean, we know that what they say has no relation to what will actually unfold. We know that they have no idea what is possible and they will just pick things that sound exciting and that they’ve been told they should want such as…
DetailsEver feel like you’re running in place and getting nowhere? Or that you can see the light at the end of the tunnel but can never reach it? It’s kinda like there’s a cosmic practical joker out there snickering at us while we try and try and try to reach something perpetually out of reach. …
DetailsMercury Retrograde. PMS. Midlife Crisis. Menopause. These are just some of the examples of when we feel lost, that things go spinning out of control, there are crashes and explosions, it seems like people become the worst of themselves, things get ripped away, our mouth cops can shut down completely, and people turn into aliens…
DetailsOne of the things that abuse survivors have to deal with is warping of their fundamental sense of reality. For children who had abusive families, whatever form that took, one of the mainstays of that abuse is to be told that black is white and white is black. They are told that what they see…
DetailsThere’s an art to figuring out what you really want. Most people think that it’s a science and it’s logical and so their left brain gets involved and things go something like this: A) Feeling that something is missing or not quite right. General dissatisfaction or nagging feeling. B) Logic brain states that we don’t…
DetailsJust in case anyone had forgotten, I ran across an article that just made me laugh. I had to check it out and it’s true: Amazon rents goats. Yes, you can submit a request for goats to come and manicure your property. A professional goat loaner will contact for details and with pricing info. In…
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