AN EERIE START, EVEN FOR A SCI FI BOOK Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2021 book, The Ministry for the Future, starts off depicting a deadly heat wave in India that doesn’t show signs of letting up. Twenty million people die before a new type of chemical cloud seeding chills things out. This and other cascading events…
this decade is a corridor of change. Where the rubber will meet the road. We already know this. The global pandemic may be just the beginning of a series of planet-changing events beyond our control. Do we sit in the corner shaking? No. Is it important to be doing the soul work you came here for? Yes. That’s the soul savvy philosophy, whether during earth changes or peaceful hammock times…
Sometimes the path is clear and just needs a tweak or two. Other times, an overhaul is needed. Change is hard. Thus the mission, purpose, soul work check in. The whole idea? Staying present to earth’s current birth canal contractions, with your gifts sparkling. Arriving to that moment where your actions catalyze and fulfill in the ways you can to enact and enable.
She started working on having more balance because her life was a mess. It helps me when people admit challenges, and give the nitty gritty details on how they turned this around.
I walked into the post office recently early one Saturday morning to mail a package. The empty station’s radio was playing commercials; a loud, bright and annoying jingle. The female postal clerk finished helping her customer and left to take the package to the back. Commercial #2 comes on, just as loud, even more annoying….
THE RECENT BOULDER SHOOTING AT KING SOOOPERS SOUTH SIDE On 3/22/21, a Boulder King Soopers supermarket was the scene of a mass shooting. Ten people died before the shooter was arrested and taken into custody. Shocking? Did the “Boulder bubble burst?” Well that bubble has not always been intact, though yes, Boulder’s usually a peaceful…
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY COVID Recently, the one year anniversary passed since March 2020’s Covid-19 lockdown. Wow. Not out of the woods yet, I know. If you’re reading this, you survived. But perhaps not without heartbreak, health delays or challenges, and other unexpected shifts. I’m guessing 2020 will not go down as a favorite year. But it…
THE METTA MEDITATION PRACTICE, PART II In the last blog, I covered the first two steps of the Metta practice, described in the book Pocketful of Miracles by Joan Borysenko (read it here). Step one is to send the blessing and care to yourself. For without self-love, there’s less to really give. Step two of…
One of the main practices for Feb is the Metta meditation. It occurred to me that this practice imitates positive evolution of the self. You first send the love to yourself – without this, you can’t really give much love to anyone or anything. OK maybe pets are the exception – those unconditional receivers… Then you send the blessing to loved ones. Then… heh heh, you send Metta to those pesky people who well, probably are your teachers. (That third step will be covered in the next blog.)
Change can be hard, and social and culture change takes time. It can be jarring at first, when new social ideas and movements appear on the scene. It’s easy to be confused, get defensive or feel threatened. Sixty years ago, Domestic Violence was not even recognized as a thing, as a problem. With the BLM…