Teachers For direction Look to yourself For purpose, Look to yourself For inspiration, Look to yourself For power, Look to yourself For love, Look to yourself For certainty, Look to

March 23, 2025

I believe President Trump suffers from a form of diet-induced brain dysfunction termed Carbohydrate Associated Reversible Brain syndrome or CARB syndrome. To better understand how CARB syndrome affects Trump, you

March 22, 2025

Michael Franti is an exception to this ageist rule. Last week, his new hit “Break Up With Everything” was the #1 most-added song to radio station playlists on U.S. adult

March 21, 2025

Modern society robs us of attention. And, because we’re so distracted, we emulate Charlie Brown listening to his teacher droning on….”wah, wah, wah, wah….”  One value in taking the time

March 20, 2025

“Incredulous.” I heard that word three times last week when it’s rare to hear it three times in a year. I also heard the phrase “moral injury” (the opposite of

March 19, 2025

I had a plan, it was set in stone, A steady job, a mortgage loan. But life just laughed and shook its head, And sent my comfort zone to bed.

March 18, 2025

We haven’t seen this kind of U.S. economic inequality in the past 100 years. Since 1979, the top 1% of earners saw their wages grow by 182%; the bottom 90%

March 17, 2025

I was recently teaching a week with poet and author Mark Nepo on friendship. I took pages of notes and had dozens of ideas and inspirations about the practice of

March 16, 2025

Here I sit, in rural Vermont, at age 58—enjoying the “messy middle” and plotting my next act. At 58, my father retired. I’m lucky enough to still have him and

March 15, 2025

MY SOUL HAS A HAT I counted my years And realized that I have Less time to live by, Than I have lived so far. I feel like a child

March 14, 2025

Based upon this premise, it means the older you are, the more raw material you have to be wise. But, that doesn’t always mean the older person is the wiser

March 13, 2025

As our Baja shaman tells us each week, to an outsider, a ritual may look strange. Why do those Catholics eat a bread wafer and wine? And, yet, to those

March 12, 2025