Philosophy
A cat is a way to make regular trips to a pet store. Fear is the ability to entertain possibilities that have not happened and are not real. What’s the problem unless you think about it? #nonduality What problem do you have unless you’re thinking about it? An essential idea of #nonduality – thought entertains […]
We put our dear cat Whidbey down last week, after a long drawn out illness. Now I have this tube of ashes and a few tufts of fur to bury later. She was my favorite of all the cats, and has been with us for 17 years. Born in our backyard. Sister to Gretel who […]
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You are two. The one on the outside who everyone sees. And the one on the inside who interprets and narrates the world you experience. Many of us focus on the ME everyone sees, training and grooming it and conforming it to the culture that surrrounds us. The true art in life happens when we focus […]
This post was originally guest published on “Anne’s Therapeutic Massage” in March 2015, recounting a conversation with my CMT following a regular weekly massage session. It is all about the experience of giving and receiving…
I keep hearing the same simple narrative about why a Trump president is good for the economy. It goes like this. Trump will open up oil exploration by cutting regulations. He will let us to drill, frack, and dig where we please to get the economy going again. He will approve the Keystone pipeline, yada yada. Wrong answer. […]
My take, more often than not, is a philosophical one that takes the long view. I’m thinking decades, maybe several generations. This year we have an unusual opportunity to vote our conscience up and down the ticket and see it make a dramatic change for the common good. FAILURE OF THE NORMAL FUNCTIONING OF GOVERNMENT This […]
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This is where I think U.S. Senator Tim Kaine walked away with a WIN in this week’s Vice-Presidential debate. And it took just 34 seconds. JUST 34 SECONDS How we view women in our society has become a pivotal campaign issue. An oft-chanted “RESPECT!” was heard throughout the Republican convention this past summer, and in an unbelievable […]
This very instant, which we call NOW, is undoubtedly one of the deepest mysteries of life — how one NOW becomes a Then, and some possible Tomorrow emerges to become the new NOW. © Yuryz | Dreamstime Two things about NOW particularly fascinate me … How quickly most of our NOWs start to vanish, being […]
If you watch the news these days you’d wonder if there is anything good happening in the world. All the news channels care about is the tragic, the horrific, the sensational, the controversial, shock, chaos, sadness, darkness. Yes, these are a part of our world, but we have so much more to be thankful for […]
