The gift of your presence is the best gift you can give anyone. Why not light it up and rock the hell out of it? Are you living the fullness of yourself or holding back something that we’ve all been waiting for? Let it out to play – don’t wait another precious minute. The world needs [...]

This is what happens after a session with Susan Manchester…

The LUMINOSITY of your ebullient empire shines on and on and on…

A little intermission before part four of the Love, Letters and Science paper. This one is a musing on two books: BM Stafford’s Good Looking, and A.S. Byatt’s The Autobiographer’s Tale. Both fun reads, especially together. – ali
“Initial repugnance for experiences we thought distasteful becomes transformed into respect through intimate association.” Stafford, p 57
“But no [...]

Here are more musings lifted from some favorite papers from the academic days. This one is from a paper titled: Love, Letters and Science: Play and the mind, belly and soul of Dust-dumplings. It was for Religion & Play – two of my favorite topics. And now, I’m going to go outside and embody both of [...]

Each winter solstice is a deep time of gratitude for me. For as long as I can remember, my holiday notes were letters of thanks crafted from what I felt in my heart at the time. Here is one of them from the turn of the last century:
Words often fall short of expressing the gratitude which [...]

I believe that life is our life’s work – and that is one big art project of integrating the experience of being human from the center of your energy body, how you body forth into the world, and what changes your interactions can make where you meet the world.
This is part of my creative conspiracy [...]

I was told a while ago by a cranial sacral practictioner of a particular line by Rudolf Steiner that went a little like this: ‘the purpose of life is the fulfillment of consciousness.’
I asked what that all entailed, since it seemed like a metric ton encapsulated in such a short string of words, and I was shown [...]