Nothing Is Ever Personal In last week’s post we discussed the number one block to our realizing the truth of who we are…of knowing that our true nature is love itself. It’s the difference between pursuing love and relaxing into the fact that we are already love. This...

Looking for Love In all The Wrong Places Most of us spend a lot of our lives looking for love in places that can never provide that permanent sense of joy and lovingness. Love has many synonyms- approval, acceptance, unconditional regard to name a few. Some of us look...

All you Need is Love…. In my early days in California, many years ago – this adage seemed to be on the lips of everyone I met. I was always leery of anyone wearing too much purple or crystals and who possessed that faraway look in their eyes that you now see in...

Tribute To Love This week our community lost a friend suddenly and the shock has us all struggling for a place to land. Ellen was a friend we met through our local knitting group – a group that has remained intact and in touch for over 9 years. The shop where we met...

From the me to the “we”. Practicing communal gratitude does not seem like an easy road – first off you can’t make it compulsory. Forcing gratitude, especially when required by those in positions of power, is just another abuse of power and surely would only foster...

“The long arc of history bends towards justice.” Dr Martin Luther King I promised that I would tie Gratitude to the transformation possibilities in our world every day. This has been a week that would easily provoke stress and a loss of hope. From the last minute...

As we enter the last week before Christmas, we can certainly be focused on getting while we are busy giving. What to get who, and how much to spend can overwhelm us with anything But gratitude. The latin root of gratitude is gratia which is the same root as Grace....

It is not uncommon for us to describe our lives in terms of the struggles- what we have overcome and how we did it – its akin to what I said in the first post – which was we focus more on what isn’t working than what is. When I first came to San Francisco so many...

Some years ago I was living in New York City when the holiday season was in full swing. I didn’t relish the idea of spending Christmas alone, so a friend connected me with serving Christmas dinner at the Salvation Army in Harlem. To say that it was a taste of things...

I grew up with one of the greatest advocates of Miss Manners, and the importance of a thank you note for all gifts received. My mother would sit me down at the kitchen table with pen and special notes she had purchased, and instruct me on the etiquette of writing a...