Good Clean Reads

By Anastasia Strgar

“It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis.”  ~Margaret Bonnano

This morning, when Arlo and I were waiting for our coffee, he told me how much this week of school is stressing him out. It’s Dead Week and so finals are close, which means serious studying for anyone still in school. I turned to him and told him, “Just do today. There really isn’t...

“Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.”  -Robert Anton Wilson

I am learning a whole new level of resilience in my life of late. It is a real initiation into a whole new consciousness that goes beyond the incremental shifts in point of view and requires the full on leap out of the way things have been into a net that shows up just because you believe...

by Anastasia Strgar

In the recent movie Letters to JulietAmanda Seyfried says to her fiancé that the relationship isn’t working because when they went on their honeymoon they spent most of their time separately. “We should want to be together all the time.” And while the relationship ultimately failed for many a reason, this romantic comedy helps to instill the cultural ideology that loving...

By Dr Tammy Nelson

Why did Arnold Schwarzenegger cheat on Maria Shriver? Did he feel like he could? Was it because he was the boss of California and the power that comes with being in such a visible position drove him to do it?  Did he also drive a big car?  Nothing seems like a good enough excuse. And the excuse, “well, all men cheat” isn’t true either.

Some of our inherent and often...

“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. “ ~Native American Proverb

I was just at the GreenFest in Seattle over the weekend where we were selling our organic and all-natural love products. Some people were surprised to see a company like ours promoting sustainable love. Some people walked by averting their eyes as though we weren’t there. More than a few...

“The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.”  -Vince Lombardi

I didn’t know that I still had so far to fall off my regular positivity practice and the complete loss of stability and balance I struggled with today left me reeling. I have given up searching for the cause, given up believing that if I could just name the brokenness, give it a reason, it...

“Why wait until the middle of a cold dark night. When everything’s a little clearer in the light of day….We could make a lot of lovin’ ‘for the sun goes down. Sky rockets in flight. Afternoon delight. Afternoon delight…”  -Starland Vocal Band

I can easily hear this old 70’s song echo in my head, I listened to it so many times in my teens and dreamt of what some good afternoon love would be like....

“There are two lasting bequests we can give our children.  One is roots.  The other is wings.”  ~Hodding Carter, Jr.

We all want to pass on to our progeny what is most precious to us. Mistakenly we often think about our inheritance in terms of material wealth. What we most deeply transfer to our children is the best and worst of our character. Probably no one sees our failings as clearly as our...

“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”  ~Henry Ford

I won the Willamette Angel Conference one year ago on Friday. I just did a feature story interview about what has happened since the win and how I would describe the experience. As I considered the interview and how to describe my past experience I referred to the Angel Conference website, which lists the following goals...