August 5, 2010 | Personal Development, Personal Sustainability
In my vulnerability I become invulnerable These words are from A Course in Miracles, and they have been a guiding light for how I show up in the world and in this blog. When I have nothing to hide… no dark places… no deep shame… no place I do not...
July 13, 2010 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Three wishes Imagine that we can have three wishes granted, on the one condition that they cannot benefit you directly. They have to be wished on behalf of someone else. What would you wish for? I sat with this question for quite some time. The answer could have been...
June 30, 2010 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Sustainability, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean— the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,...
June 16, 2010 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice
Game Change Back in 1986, I attended a personal development workshop called Money and You. The facilitator was Robert Kiyosaki. (Author of the Rich Dad Poor Dad series). The driving impulse to attend was a desire to make more money. I suspect I also wanted to...
May 20, 2010 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Personal Sustainability
Finding the Feminine My mother, the wonderful spiritual astrologer, Ashtara, is usually the person I call when the Universe seems to be heckling my spirit. Friday last week, I woke feeling very trapped. For the last 16 years, I have allowed myself to fall down the...