Square All with Love- This Phrase is attributed to Lester Levenson, the founder of The Sedona Method. Many years ago, Lester was given a few weeks to live.  He decided to use the time he had left to discover who he was and what life was really all about.  One of the...

Listening From the Heart One of the greatest causes of stress and energy drains is ineffective and inefficient communication.  If you watched the news at all this week, you witnessed  that going on constantly. Many times it was clear  there was no listening going...

All Manner of Things Shall Be Well When I was in Seminary, I wrote a paper on Julian of Norwich.  I chose her because the word Norwich was in her title and I had a beautiful female Norwich Terrier at that point and I felt they were related.  (such lofty...

BIG LOVE- Someone I hold dear coined the phrase for me of BIG LOVE- (Hey Carlton…shout out to you).  I don’t know what exactly he meant but to me it means a love that makes me better and bigger than I ever thought of being; a love that is eternal in nature and is ever...

The Art of Thoughtfulness- My mother could have written the book on manners – It seemed the lessons from “ please and thank you” to writing notes of appreciation were what I spent many an hour doing, with her standing behind me to make sure I did it…she taught me how...

No greater Love- I have written about Love a great deal in the few years this blog has been in existence.  It is and always has been the greatest power we could ever hope to experience. We often do not realize that until something occurs to remind us of Love’s...

Handsome and a Hero Women of my mother’s generation had a feeling for this man…it was called a crush. I can remember my mother listening to the song at the end of this blog, and dancing as if Harry was in the room.  I think she said something like “no man should be...

Trying is Tiring Master Yoda is one of my favorite teachers…and among his famous quotes is the one that says “Don’t try, just do”. I saw this character in my early twenties and if I had known what a mantra was then,  I would have taken that phrase as my mantra.  Later...

The Happiest Man on Earth My blog is named for the book of the same title by a man named Eddie Jaku.  Eddie lived to be 101 years old and was a Holocaust survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald.  There are many Holocaust stories that have been written over these many...

Passover, Easter, Spring – Oh Boy! This is the week where the themes of the season overlap each other and give us an opportunity to celebrate rebirth, renewal, and rejuvenation.  Wednesday night the festival of Passover began – and its primary celebration of Freedom. ...

To Dream the Impossible Dream As I close out the series on the innate creators that we all are – and the magnificent creativity we all can bring forth; I have to include this last and important element.  To Dream – whether it is a night dream or a daydream – to dream...

Creating- From Formless to Form. Now that we have both Love and Inspiration in place, we can move to the creating process itself.  Remember that this is not a formula – but rather an organic and innate ability that everyone has from within.  It is only when we “try”...