Have you visited Mt. Rushmore, featuring the impressive carvings of four presidents protruding from a rock ledge? If so, you’ve been the to Black Hills. The Sioux nation considers the Black Hills one of their most sacred sites. Called Paha Sapa, considered the Mother of all creation, it is a place used for ceremonies, initiations, …
The day before Christmas and I’m celebrating my mother’s ninetieth birthday party at the Hard Rock Casino in Tampa, Florida. Raised in the chaos, the sense of something destructive and hidden lurking in our home, the slow, painful awareness of my mother’s addictions, I was hardly elated by my son’s suggestion that we celebrate her …
Money in a Beggar’s Bucket BLOG Money in a Beggars Bucket Where did I learn that a good deed guarantees another in return? Maybe not right away, maybe a little down the road, or perhaps next lifetime…but a good deed will be repaid in kind. Really? Has that been your experience? If so, you are …
Inquiring into our relationship to love Have you ever noticed how our perception of the world shifts when we are in love? Or when we feel safely loved? And how different it is when you are experiencing a hurt or a rejection? Our inner state determines so much about how we perceive the world, how …
Light Radiance Splendor in a nutshell Light Radiance Splendor is not a book I consciously intended to write. A story set in Eastern Europe and Israel, organized around a kabbalistic mythology was an anathema to my family. Their response to questions about ancestry was “you don’t want to know.” Actually I did want to know. …
The Call of Destiny Talk about wildly creative, every human being is a completely unique creation. Like snowflakes, there is no possibility that any person throughout all of time and space could ever be the same. DNA aside, the ever- changing external influences can never be replicated. The externals can never be the same, nor …
Hard Rock Casino on Christmas Eve The day before Christmas and I’m celebrating my mother’s ninetieth birthday party at the Hard Rock Casino in Tampa, Florida. Raised in the chaos, the sense of something destructive and hidden lurking in our home, the slow, painful awareness of my mother’s addictions, I was hardly elated by my …
Intrinsic Value Recently I was privy to the temper tantrum of an ordinarily mature friend who temporarily regressed to the level of his three year old son. His wife had shared with me that this kind of acting out happened fairly occasionally but enough to disturb their family life. Now I understood what she was …
Opening the heart My quiet suburban neighborhood, chosen decades ago for its excellent school system, has recently become a mecca for builders who in taking advantage of the new lenient zoning laws have bought the three lots abutting my house, and are erecting condos with enough square footage to house three families. The noise and …
