It is safe to say, for each of us, our journey through life began with observation and uncertainty and not a great deal of self-awareness. With the addition of life experiences such as consequences emerging from personal choices, we may…
As a feminist who has disallowed inequity to rule her life and a concerned citizen who understands the value of diversity, it is difficult to not become cynical when I read the preponderance of research claiming North America is far…
A recent CNN news bulletin reported positive trends in the following U.S. social wellness measures — • high school dropout rates • college enrollment • juvenile crime • drunken driving • traffic deaths • infant mortality • life expectancy • per…
In the past 50 years, humans generated more knowledge than in all their existence on this planet. No wonder the world feels confusing and even overwhelming at times. New combinations of technology, competition, and communications are causing fundamental change in venerable…
Recently, surrounded by several conversations each regarding personal boundaries, the same essential question arose — what boundaries define an enlightened relationship versus an entangled one? Although the question appears relatively straight forward, what is confusing is that each of us,…
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing. Marc Chagall Each week, I co-design and co-facilitate two meditation writing groups. The purpose of these small group sessions is to – • relax the…
Osho, Eastern mystic, states the greatest human fear is our fear of the unknown. To stand alone . . . the fear arises: Who knows whether you are right or wrong? To stand alone, you stand in coldness. To stand…
My fears are my early warning signals for what I need to master. Curiosity found me counting the number of blogs (56) in which I wrote about some aspect of fear. As a faithful bi-weekly and then weekly blogger over…
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Charles Darwin Over the last two decades, our personal and professional experience with changing circumstances in our lives…
This weekend’s paper published a two-page spread, not on the U.S. Republican convention nor on the provincial election in Quebec but on the over-population of cats in urban settings. As the statistics estimated, “between 50,000 and 100,000 cats (not spayed…
For a third week running, I continue my conversation on identity, a topic foremost on my mind since my pilgrimage back to my youth in the form of a 40th high school reunion. As I reflect on what identity has…
My last blog talked about identity transformation, a universal life experience in which we choose to alter who we are and how we express ourselves in the outer world; that is, we change our being not just our behaviour. Identity…
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