Good Clean Reads

“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,...

“Courage is the strength/power to let go of the familiar.” -Raymond Lindquist

My twelve-year-old daughter Emma gave me this quote in a frame for my birthday. I was a little shocked that she would find something like this and asked her how she chose it. She said, “Well, I know you are letting go of a lot right now.” Then she said, “So you know it’s courageous.” Then she turned on her heels, iPod in...

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”  -Abraham Lincoln

Today is my birthday. My philosophy of the birthday celebration is that the best way to honor this personal new year celebration is to try to include a little bit of everything you most treasure in the day. Like a vision board, post even just a moments reflection on what you love about...

“Sex is more than an act of pleasure, its’ the ability to be able to feel so close to a person, so connected, so comfortable that it’s almost breathtaking to the point you feel you can’t take it. And at this moment you’re a part of them.”  -Unknown

For all the writing, talking and making products for sexual enjoyment that I spend my time, at the end of the day, it is the doing that gives the rest...

“Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.” -Katherine Mansfield

I am quickly running out of days on this yearlong positivity quest, and amazingly here I am still learning to go for it. Three thousand copies of my book will soon be headed towards me in a Mack truck and here I am, on the...

Experience “The Reconnection”phenomenon that will alter the way you think about healing and the foundations of life itself. Drawing on new quantum physics science, Eric Pearl explains how his dramatic healing abilities are accessible to all of us. His book, The Reconnection: Heal others, Heal yourself is a world wide bestseller available in 30 languages. Through understanding the new energy...

“We are not to fear the strangeness we feel. The future enters into us long before it happens.” -Rainer Maria Rilke

I am comforted by the idea that there is a future evolving inside of me that I can’t quite see or make sense of. Transitions of all kinds share this one common truth- that the process of letting go and the creation of something unknown is walking the same path. You can’t let go of...

“The living moment is everything.”  ~D.H. Lawrence

Staying present in life as it is seems such a simple and direct path; yet it is remarkable how challenging it is to do. These last few weeks I have been practicing the art of doing one thing at a time, deliberately keeping myself from multi-tasking in ways that are so habitual that I don’t even see them happening. Some are obvious like talking on...

“If you haven’t experienced it, it’s not true.” -Kabir

A full and vital experience of life requires that it be driven by your own unique and original thinking. I was delighted to discover “The Art of Original Thinking” by Jan Phillipsand happy to know that my formula for this positivity quest is indeed a reflection of the deepest original thinking one can practice in their lives. Each day, as I...