A Soft Heart

Summer is in full swing. This is the time of year when the energy of the heart is high. When in excess or out of balance, we can feel angry, tightness in the chest, restless, or an underlying sense of angst. To me, this feeling seems to have been amplified lately due...

Refill

Sometimes I wait too long to refill. I always notice my house plants drooping with thirst. Their little leafy arms grow weak. The weight of so much beauty and vibrancy becomes crippling without enough moisture to sustain it. Their little green arms wither to brown...

Love

“My dear, find what you love and let it kill you.” -Bukowski There are so many ways to live. Why not live by letting the things dearest to you come ever closer into your heart? Why not open so wide that the whole world could live inside your chest? Why leave the...

Choose As If You Were Blind

Choose the thing that makes you feel big. Choose the job that makes you stretch in all the right uncomfortable ways. Choose the love that makes your days feel touched by magic. Choose the words that roll off your tongue and in your head that make you grow taller,...

Returning to Love

The truth is, love is all around us. We are made of love. We return to love. There is nothing but love. That’s what all the wisest sages, saints, yogis, and dogs say. Love is the fiber of our Universe. “It’s the cause and effect of all things”, as Rumi would say. But...

The Giveaway

Giving opens us. Giving clears us out for new delights. It creates a vacuum. The Universe abhors a vacuum. It will rush to fill it. When we give from the deepest place, the place that knows there is never any risk of loosing what is essential, we know freedom. When...