Good Clean Reads

“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” – T. S. Eliot

I sometimes wonder if the reason I have for so long embraced the motto, you never fail until you quit is because I am so unskilled at endings. I feel like the tire that is stuck spinning in a muddy rut when it is time to move on. I have the will and the engine...

“What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.”  -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Last night as I was preparing for my talk today, my nerves started to get the best of me and I couldn’t articulate. I would start and then stammer, start over again and lose my thread, stop and start until I lost hope for the trying. I am proud and happy to report that my next choice...

“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.” -Frank Lloyd Wright

Funny how just deciding to have more fun, to relax into the game of it all for only one day has been like a system re-boot. It is almost magical how giving up the need to get it done transforms anxious urgency into a steadfast rhythm, seemingly without effort. At least this is how the day...

“If it’s not fun, you’re not doing it right” -Bob Basso

This is one of the most challenging parts of positivity for me to keep my eye on, the fun quotient. I forget often about having fun and, worse still, fall out of touch with just the fact that the whole point of life should be fun. I don’t know why being so serious seems so much more adult to me or if it just a bad habit, but between the...

“Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.” -Publilius Syrus  (Roman author, 1st century B.C.)

Here’s the thing about getting what you want… then you have to do it. I have been envisioning myself as a public inspirational speaker for years. Anyone who knows me would agree I have a lot to say, but still, giving a speech is different than talking. A speech, especially a short one,...

“Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.”  -Cherrie Moraga

There are days when despite our best efforts, stuff, systems and relationships break down. Early morning, I listen for election results. The progressive movement that inspired the country a couple short years...

“True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.” -St. Francis of Assisi

Today, my book Love that Works was accepted by an alternative publishing house/distributor for national distribution! I am overjoyed to be part of the 3% of the material that they accept and promote. I must admit that I had some shadows of doubt that I was continuously having to sweep aside about whether my...

I spent a week writing this post about having patience with ourselves, our loved ones and our political process only to encounter a day full of impatience again. It is the most important practice one can undertake, this willingness to allow time to be what it is, to allow the process of our lives to fill us, to learn how to wait and enjoy it all… Happy election day to us all… please vote with your...

“Art is a wound turned into light.” -Georges Braque

Creativity is the human potential we are provided, which allows our psyche to process and transform the dark recesses of our minds. When we bring our struggles with relationships or even just a painful incident in our days into the light of form we contact the deepest and most powerful safety valve we are programmed with. Whether it be movement,...