So many musicians in the tapestry of life...
The Sound of Listening and Healing
There's a lot more to listening than you knew...
The Solution for Unity is Simple (and Free)
Are you ready for a heart-based revolution?
A Non-Religious but Spiritual Palm Sunday
The calendar indicates today is "Palm Sunday."Â Being a religious holiday, I often wondered in my youth why it wasn't called "Psalm Sunday" but as a gardener I'm just as happy to see green palms after a long, grey winter. And while it's (sadly) becoming increasingly unpopular and even dangerous to identify with any religious …
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Come Together
I've just returned from a smooth jazz festival in Cancun. Based on the line-up, I knew the music would be excellent but I hadn't counted on it raining every day.  This could have ruined a beach vacation but instead restored my hope in humankind. Moving the outdoor stage indoors due to the rain created extremely …
Savoring Sunday’s Symphony
Guilt slips in and around the cool morning breeze for taking time to slip into my favorite summer chair and be in Sunday morning. A confident breeze eases the heat on my sun-warmed skin, stroking my cheek with the only classical music absent of customary stuffiness --- Mozart, Bach, Gershwin, Schubert's "Unfinished" symphony no. …
The Authentic Life of Nature
Driving home on this rainy Saturday evening, the windshield wipers are paragraphs separating my thoughts. I’ve been hand-drumming for 3 hours in a drum circle at the local health food store. Some of the participants I’ve known for decades, others I met today. The face of my friend flashes through my mind. We lunched earlier …
Friends of Different Feathers
These guys (or gals) don't look alike but they respectfully share from the same feeder, while happily chirping away. People could learn a lot from them. I learned a lot from Jamaicans when visiting their homeland. Most Americans warned me ahead of time to "not go off the resort premises," but strolling down the beach …