Follow Your Creative Spirit
"Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow..."—Kurt Vonnegut There is little in life that doesn't require creativity. Even if we…
"Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow..."—Kurt Vonnegut There is little in life that doesn't require creativity. Even if we…
Bob Dylan wrote the song “The Times They Are A-Changin” in fall of 1963, a pivotal time in US history. Martin Luther King had just delivered his “I Have a…
Do you ever read the news and feel despair? I do. There is so much trouble in the world. Yet we still have to live our lives and follow our…
Having goals is essential. Most people have a natural desire to accomplish things and use their talents and abilities to find fulfillment, and make a contribution, and goals give us…
All of us have desires—many of them, I imagine. As I move through any given day, I am always trying to figure out how to fulfill one desire or another.…
In our culture, youth is often praised and aging is seen as a deficit. But as we get older, we gain access to a deeper kind of wisdom than we…
Remember the movie “Field of Dreams”? In that film, Kevin Costner hears a voice telling him, “If you build it, they will come.” He builds a baseball diamond and, well,…
Years ago I saw a film called "Personal Best." It was about women training for the Olympics. In the end, they were unable to attend the Olympics because the U.S.…
Here in the Northeast, days are cold and short in January. It's a time to stay in a lot, and to act in harmony with nature. Nature is in a…
Mindfulness isn’t only about meditating every day, developing a sense of presence throughout the day, calming our mind and bodies, learning to focus, or realizing that we don’t have to…