Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. – Rumi The life you live is the lesson you […]
I seldom post about cultural holidays except to honor the sacredness that underlies their original meaning, like Labor Day or Memorial Day. This year I’m making an exception for Hallowe’en […]
Transitioning into retirement means reading many good new books and re-connecting with many good old friends. It also means tackling the de-cluttering postponed for at least five years while I […]
Besides letting go of the roles that were the pillars of my professional life – working with clients as a psychotherapist in a 30-year clinical practice, teaching the neuroscience of […]
A colleague sent me a card for my retirement: “Congratulations on your new office furniture!” With an image of a hammock in the back yard. I do have a chaise […]
I formally brought my career/calling as a psychotherapist/trainer to a poignant closure by teaching at the end of June at the Cape Cod Institute. And I formally celebrated the transition […]
As you read this, I will be celebrating my (almost) 75th birthday by attempting to hike to the top of Mt. Lassen (10,500 feet). When I climbed the peak last […]
“Nauset” means “a place between.” The indigenous Nauset lived on the salt marshes of Cape Cod for hundreds of years before the Pilgrims “discovered” the Cape and displaced the native […]
Healing and Awakening into Aliveness and Wholeness has been the banner of this e-newsletter from the very beginning. And Conscious, Compassionate Connection the path to that healing and awakening from […]
My friend Mark, a high school biology teacher, is fond of the adage, “Bad farmers grow weeds; good farmers grow crops; excellent farmers grow soil.” I’ve certainly experienced the wisdom […]