What a joy it was to be part of the teaching team for our first MEA Silent Retreat with Teddi taking the lead role in curating and week. We have
November 2, 2025
I was in New Mexico recently and got to have lunch with Chip at the great farm-to-table restaurant Los Poblanos. I was updating him on the projects I had created
November 1, 2025
But don’t cue the farewell music just yet. I’m not done. I’m simply changing costumes. The truth is, I’ve never been good at the traditional notion of “retirement.” It’s always
October 31, 2025
A Philosopher is a lover of wisdom, a medicine for the soul. I took a Philosophy course my first quarter of college, not even 18 yet. It changed my life.
October 29, 2025
There were those calf-nursing bottles full of booze that I sold at college football games. My college mates were cheap drunks who lugged beer kegs into the stands and I
October 28, 2025
In a recent article, the New York Times writes, “In many places across the country, ‘the nearby college is … one of the few places left where young people can
October 27, 2025
“For years, I’ve learned more from watching the X Games and surfing documentaries than from reading dharma (and mindfulness) books”, I told Teddi Dean after the Sunday Sangha where he offers
October 26, 2025
For the first time in my life, I am “in love.” I am literally living from a place of love. I have spent the last decade pulling apart my thoughts
October 25, 2025
What if midlife crises are going extinct? According to a recent Newsweek article summarizing data from more than ten million people in the U.S. and U.K., the classic midlife dip
October 24, 2025
I’ve always liked doing hard things. My first hotel had “failure” written all over it — a bankrupt pay-by-the-hour motel in a sketchy neighborhood, run by a guy with zero
October 23, 2025
Every year, MEA opens our Baja campus during the Christmas/NY Eve holidays for people to experience this time of the year in a new way. We call it Refresh and
October 22, 2025
Two recent articles — one on WIBC (“People Hit Their Cognitive Peak at 60”) and another via The Conversation (“Worried About Turning 60? Science Says That’s When Many of Us
October 21, 2025
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