It’s a Wonderful Life – June 19, 2020
Black Lives Matter – so now what do we do? Reflecting on the past weeks has provoked many memories. If you were born between 1955-1960 you probably remember other protests – then called riots. You probably remember marches, and sit-ins and the endless controversy over...
It’s a Wonderful Life – June 12, 2020
The Meaning of Life is made, not found. Robert Holden As I was studying to be a psychologist, we had many guest lecturers during the course of our program. Most were serious, focused on academic research and centered on the question of “what is wrong with people?” But...
It’s a Wonderful Life – June 5, 2020
Time To Rise Let your strength give us strength, let your hope give us hope, let your faith give us faith, let your love give us love….Bruce Springsteen This has been a week of hurt, violence, sadness and recognition. A combination of events has pulled on the heart...
It’s a Wonderful Life – May 29, 2020
Radical and oh yes Amazing Grace Love is the crowning grace of humanity. Petrarch Grace is a term that defies definition..it’s often associated with concepts of God or teaching from the Bible. I called this a more radical idea of grace because I intend to define it in...
It’s a Wonderful Life – May 23, 2020
Don’t Worry….Be Happiness This is a take off on the famous song by Bobby McFerrin…don’t worry be happy…it was a fun little ditty back in the day. I was living in San Francisco in those days and went to one of the little clubs in North Beach and watched him perform it...
It’s a Wonderful Life – May 15, 2020
Who do you trust? I think that was the name of a TV show in the fifties-or maybe it was to Tell The Truth – but this week its been on my mind. Information has been coming at a rapid rate – much of it contradicts information that came before – States have been...
It’s a Wonderful Life – May 8, 2020
“To lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have for greater life, to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving, to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.” Thomas Wolfe RISE AND SHINE….. Back in the good old days or...
It’s a Wonderful Life – May 1, 2020
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.". -Albert Einstein When I was a child I used to spin great stories in my head, characters, plots,...
It’s a Wonderful Life – April 23, 2020
The communion in community that births compassion, allows you to hear the inaudible and see the invisible so that we as a species can do what’s impossible in the current paradigm in which we are living. That is called, ‘making a way, out of no way.’ This is what we...
It’s a Wonderful Life – April 17, 2020
What if? A Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory “Worry and fear are not spiritual practices.”—Michael Beckwith When you believe, as I do, that the universe constantly conspires for your good, you can’t help but notice the silver lining. As Jack Kornfield says, “This virus...
It’s a Wonderful Life – April 10, 2020
This week’s post is dedicated to friendship- one of life’s greatest blessings and probably one we don’t celebrate nearly enough. It is brought to mind by many things this week – noticing how friends are keeping in touch through the social distancing – how friends are...
It’s a Wonderful Life – April 3, 2020
FEAR NOT- Della Reese – Touched by an Angel Ok by now you know I am totally moved by the so called corny…after all I named this Blog after my favorite Christmas movie which was made long before I was born. So naturally you might know I never missed an episode of...