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Intend And Forget
I have many titles for this painting and have used it more than a few times for posts. It popped up for me again today. It is ultimately about intention and inner guidance. I just finished writing this...
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Walk As One
From my archives. I call this painting, “Alki.” Alan and I talked today. We are planning our upcoming Summit in Holland in June. Our conversations are always as wide-ranging as they are deep dives into...
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Look Up And See
Another painting from my archive. Today I call this, “The Other Side Of Yearning.” The fire in the fire pit was waning. The party was over and everyone had gone. We sat staring into the small flames,...
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Have A Chat With Erling
Kerri with her dad. It seems as if the theme for the week is lost conversations. It occurred to me that, after writing yesterday’s post, there is, in my life, another conversation that I wish I could...
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Know Your Meditation
Some random thoughts on consciousness: Last night I read that, according to some traditions, all forms of separation are an illusion. Only the whole is real but to experience the whole, one must...
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Enter The Castle
[continued from Tell A Good Story] Shuttering the business, closing down my coaching practice, ending all corporate work, cleaning out the metaphoric closet – created quite a void. Standing solidly in...
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Let Yourself Dance
My painting, ‘Dancing In The Front Yard’ It is the season of the light’s return. The Equinox is only a few days away. The dark days bode of new light. It is the literal, solar-lunar cycle-dance of...
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Make No Sense
Untiltled Narrative by David Robinson The cliché: life is a cycle. Order begets chaos and chaos begets order. Both are necessary. Just as spring is not possible without winter, order without chaos...
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Step Into The Field
[continued from “Jump!] I wrote this phrase: “The one facilitates the journey for the many.” And, today, I would add: the one facilitates the journey for the many so that the many can experience the...
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Seek Solitude
from my Yoga series of paintings It is easier to sail many thousands of miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to...
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Unroll The Generosity Perspective
I’m eavesdropping. Kerri and Pastor Tom are in the next room having a planning session. I just heard P-Tom say, “The generosity perspective fell down. Woody rolled it up and put it under the table.” I...
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Walk The Line Where Sky Meets Earth
TODAY’S FEATURED THOUGHT FOR HUMANS There is a concept that shows up in one form or another in all spiritual traditions: find the middle way. Finding the middle way is simply another way of saying...
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Taste It Fully
ice circles on the lake We heard the angry barking of crows before we saw them. They were haranguing an owl. It flew into a tree only a few yards in front of us. For several moments, through the ruckus...
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Have A Conversation
my quick sketches of two of the stained glass window panels Yesterday I learned that my conversation with the stained glass window was only on hiatus. Several months ago we simply stopped talking. In...
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Follow The Trail [on Merely A Thought Monday]
Max Ehrmann died. His poem, Desiderata, was mostly unknown. He did not write it for fame and few poets, unless they are delusional, write for fortune. Desiderata found its way to the light because it...
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Realize It [on KS Friday]
Years ago, at the retreat center on Whidbey Island, Kendy talked with me about her budding meditation practice. She was having difficulty quieting her mind chatter. To help, a teacher gave her a...
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Give Over The Melody Line [on KS Friday]
Spiritual teachers across traditions suggest that the reason we suffer is that we focus on what we think should be/supposed to be instead of on what is. The dedication to being someplace other than...
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Spin With The Earth [on KS Friday]
If I was stranded on a desert island and could only have two books, they would be Think On These Things by Krishnamurti and The Actor And The Target by Declan Donnellan. If I was teaching a class on...
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Tend One Way [on KS Friday]
This is what I’ve learned. Boil away the rules and regulations penned into the great spiritual traditions and you will find they all pretty much say the same stuff: ~presence is not something you can...
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Get Connected [on KS Friday]
I climbed a mountain many years ago and stood on the summit just as the sun was rising. I’ve never felt so…connected. So alive. I suspect that all of the truly peak moments of life are moments of...
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