Good Clean Reads

Most things in life are developmental. Human lifespan has programmed continuous growth and maturation into our genetic code, which acts as an imperative that makes skill building one of the richest aspects of daily living. Nowhere is this truer than in our foundational relationship to our sexuality.

“There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant...

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” -Mahatma Gandhi

Today should not have required so much effort to stay positive about the changes in life. The interesting thing is how something that you really wanted presents limitations that you didn’t include in the vision of having your desired outcome. Change feels harder than you think even when you...

“I am letting go of my idea of time. I see that eternal life is not a question of “I will be forever,” but of “Now I am.” Eternity is time dying in me.” -Jean Lanier

Tomorrow is the second anniversary of the death of a dear friend. It is hard to believe that so much time could have gone by, and in some crazy way, we still keep expecting him to come home, as though he has been gone on a long...

Listen as Frank Lampe, one of the founders of the LOHAS movement (Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability) walks us through the early development and corporatization of the natural product industry and alternative health care. Frank has been a leader in the publishing side of the business for over a decade and has witnessed the movement towards natural health and healing in media and retail...

“Less is more.” –Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I have never been a minimalist. I have never shied away from a project or a job because I was afraid it was too big. I have four kids of my own and our house is often full of their friends. It isn’t unusual to make meals for ten or more. Even after all these years I always believe I have time to do one more thing, room for one more activity, space to...

“Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.” ~John Lennon

I think I need a vacation. Lately I can barely get myself to work; I would rather exercise, be lost in a novel, lie in the grass feeling the warm sun and light breeze. Once I get in the door, the resistance sits at the door, waiting for a good reason to do something else. Onthese summer days, when the office is too hot to think, there are...

“There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.” ~Henry Ward Beecher

I don’t know if there is a more satisfying journey than drifting away on a good story. It is rare find for me to tumble so deeply into a fictional landscape that is so engaging and the characters’...

“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all” –William Faulkner

I like the idea that gratitude exists in the world like an electric current. The more that it is expressed and experienced, the more energy that gratitude builds. I know I am not alone in having felt appreciation for someone’s help or effort and not...

“When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren’t grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude” -Cynthia Ozick

I was searching for the feeling of gratitude for much of the day. I let it be a slow day, not jumping out of bed early to exercise, letting myself have quiet writing time at...