There are a lot of opinions out there on the subject, but to my mind, Valentines Day is about love. The marketing and the hype trying to get it to be about romantic love and to sell us things so we can give things to significant others. And I’m not opposed to that at all…
One of the more significant issues facing White Western cultures today is elder care. It’s not that people didn’t become elderly before now. It’s not that there are necessarily more of them becoming elderly than there were before, although that is due to start here relatively shortly due to the Baby Boomers. I see two…
Being spiritual doesn’t mean being better than others. It doesn’t require that you live an ascetic life. It doesn’t mean that you have risen above everyone else. On the contrary. What it means is that you look at yourself and see clearly who and what you are: a human being like everyone else. And then…
Anger in our culture is such a divisive emotion. Besides the fact that it is over used and abused in the media because of the drama factor, people have such striking opinions about it. Some feel that it should only be displayed in private, behind closed doors and only to the person or persons involved…
What is the one thing you are going to change today? Our being in the Universe requires that we move and do because we need to eat and eliminate and breath. We are home to millions of organism that live with us symbiotically on, around and in our bodies. We move through an environment that…
What if things had been different? There is a great segway in the movie Under the Tuscan Sun where the main character says “Any little change along the way and I would be somewhere else. I would be different.” The camera pans across her writing desk which holds mementos from her life’s journey from misery…
Dreams don’t need to be lofty ideals or game changing events. They don’t have to be ‘happily ever after’ or rider towards the sunset. They can be small amounts of wonder or joy or amazement that you can fit into the palm of your hand. They can be doing something you’ve always wanted to try…
I’m very much into creating, into doing, into making things happen in life and going for what I want. I’ve always called it ‘adventuring’ although it’s not adrenaline junky stuff. I’ve ridden in a two-seater helicopter, but I’m not interested in sky diving. I am interested in pointing my car in a direction and just…
Facebook is full of profound images, those that uplift and those that are a warning of dangers going on around us. Nothing wrong with that at all. In fact, in a culture where we are so distanced from each other physically and where local is overwhelming, picking images from the global village makes sense. It’s…
How do you identify yourself? Is it through race, political affiliation, career, social status? Who are you? Even if it’s just something you know in your head and in your heart, its worth taking a look at because it colors how you see the world and therefore how the world sees you. The issue of…