The Gift of Aging: A Brief Poetic History through a Public Health Perspective
Modern society’s obsession with erasing age overlooks the profound truth that growing old—once a rarity in human history—is a miraculous privilege made possible by centuries of human progress.
forgiveness in a dark place
Forgiveness is the most painful yet beautiful piece of the puzzle that is the human experience.
ego is a scaffold
Ego is a complex balance of confidence and denial, offering both support and risk, and true growth comes from embracing its dual nature with humility and self-acceptance.
Decolonizing Love: Reclaiming Connection as a Path to Collective Healing
Decolonizing love is the radical act of remembering our wholeness, choosing connection over control, and tending to ourselves and each other in ways that heal the wounds of separation and dismantle the systems that created them.
COMFORT FOR ARTISTS AND INTROVERTS
The article underscores the importance of solitude and mindfulness in fostering creativity and self-discovery, in a society that often prioritizes the rat race over the deeper needs of the mind.
BALANCING HEART, INTELLECT, AND INSTINCT
I’m lying in bed and wake up to the sound of rain. It’s a cold Spring, the rain is icy and it’s a holiday. The sound of the rain brings a feeling of duality. Feelings of coziness and the knowledge that winter continues even though it’s officially spring. I’m thinking that it’s never been this cold on this particular holiday. It’s usually sunny and bright and flowers are starting to bloom. The world is awakening slowly from winter. We are also well into the year of the dragon. The dragon, the most powerful sign of the Chinese zodiac, is unstable, … More
The Unintentional Gypsy
The morning broke into stillness. The rising moment was like a searing silence in the heart. A kind of peace one is mostly unfamiliar with, except in times of extreme joy. Autumn’s musk filled the air around me, as the opening rays of the sun danced on the blanket of wet dewdrops spread across the colored lawn. But then that dreaded moment of foreboding that something wasn’t right pressured its way into my mind. I felt all at once, both saddened and deliriously enchanted by the profound feeling of separation from all that exists… with the exception of my own … More
the authentic you:your role as an evolutionist
Through humanity’s expansive journey of conscious evolution there comes a point in time, after a great period of conscious growth, when your self-awareness shifts into high gear. This is the point at which you cross the line from a state of lack to a state of wholeness, or your Authentic Self. Upon this milestone of your personal evolution, you transcend your lower levels of awareness and merge with your higher awareness. As you gradually become an expression of your Authentic Self, you begin to align with life’s evolutionary cycle while assisting others along their journey towards their Authentic Self. In … More
the path forward
When we come across a change in our life direction, we may be facing a new path altogether leading back toward the heart/mind of our Higher Consciousness. This is the point where the gap between our two planes of consciousness separates: Consciousness of Form and Consciousness of Energy (your Higher Consciousness). The Consciousness of Form is what drives our lower consciousness in our daily lives as humans on the Earth plane. Our Higher Consciousness (Consciousness of Energy) is that part of us that is eternal and is the expression of our Authentic Being. When we reach this almighty chasm we … More
A Handbook for the Curious Heart: Curiosities; Insights, and Thoughtful Prose
A Certain Kind of Longing … Relationships of Scale Nothing is intrinsically right or wrong for everything in place in this world has a place in this world. It is to all things, and our relationship to them on the scale of their attributes, that speaks of a far deeper truth than can be revealed at face value. Objectivity of Mind Learning to detach yourself emotionally in order to observe a situation objectively is the path to clarity and self-understanding. When emotions get in the way there is little room for anything else. Balance We crave the sun when being … More
