August 15, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
The animating force called life In my University student days, I spent hundreds of hours in the anatomy lab dissecting cadavers. All of my fellow students were nervous on that first day. How would we cope? Yet a cadaver prepared for dissection is as life-like as the...
August 14, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Expand and contract This last week has been a week of contraction. Singular focus. All extraneous activities and noise turned off. My mental bandwidth resisting, for a good reason, anything but what needs to be attended to. It has not been the time to expand my...
August 13, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Excellence The path to excellence is a commitment. The want to be better, greater and wiser is a call that may arise from so many places of conflict. Often to prove to others, to be loved and accepted, to be seen. Sometimes, it is because we love the journey, the...
August 12, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings
Are we kind On Wednesday my love had open heart surgery, an extreme trauma to his body, mind, being. The field of support for him has been beautiful. I often think about the nature of humanity. Adversity really is a test of character. Are we kind? Do we offer love?...
August 11, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Life is beautiful I have been writing Beauty of Beginnings since January 1st 2018. For the last few months, I have been editing and curating this collection of daily ruminations in preparation for the first Beauty book. It is fascinating to read the poetry of my...