Freed by Brownie Brittle
So I’m in the store with an 88-year young friend I sometimes assist, getting groceries at 4 pm on a rainy Tuesday afternoon. And while she’s looking for free-range organic eggs, I turn around and on the aisle end cap spy a display of salted caramel brownie brittle....
Hogtied By Lilliputians
We can all identify with Jack Black in this picture. Day in, day out, we’re tied down by Lilliputians in the form of zillions of picky-boony tasks, errands, to-do lists and obligations, laws and legalese, too many emails in the in-box, too much junk mail in the post...
Don’t Take the World Serious
Back a couple centuries ago in the 1980s there was an Orville Redenbacher popcorn commercial with a World Series baseball theme where Orville’s wife made a play on words saying to her husband who was glued to the TV day in day out watching the games: “Oh, Orville,...
Furry Blue Alien Watches Political Circus From Space
Imagine aliens from planet Zârtôk responding to our deep space signals by sending a furry ambassador bearing great wisdom and technology to share along with insights into how to create a balanced global culture where all beings thrive equally. Pausing before making...
What Is Your Narrative?
Confession: I’m a science fiction geek. Been reading it since Arthur C. Clark was the genre’s “go to” guy. And if there is such a thing as reincarnation I’m definitely returning as a Taoist spaceship captain on a deep space mission into the unknown. (Speaking of...
Bernie’s Hope vs Hilary’s Insider Status
Like most political virgins I didn’t have a clue what would happen when I walked into the local high school gymnasium. I just wanted to participate in my country’s democratic process. So 9:45 am Saturday morning found me wandering amidst barely controlled mayhem at my...
The Wisdom of Patience
A million years ago when I was 28 years-old I was working in radio as a salesperson selling commercial air time. (Selling time – what a concept!) Anyway, I was introduced to a woman by a client—and we immediately hit it off over lunch. A friendship rapidly developed...
If You See a Messenger of God … laugh
Two Sundays in a row I went to a lovely church called Unity in the Olympics up in Port Angeles to give a talk on “The Heart of the Matter” – a two-part series on the nature of the ego. The congregation was delightful and the first talk went well The second...
Give the Ego a Break
Everybody bashes the ego. But not me. Not anymore. I’ve finally comes to terms with the sucker. The ego is not the Bad Guy people make it out to be. After a lot of years and a ton of meditation and a lot of going back and forth between the ego state and the no-ego...
It Pays More to Lean Elsewhere
Three guys from the sociology department of the University of Toronto recently got a long opinion piece in The New York Times, titled “When Leaning In Doesn’t Pay Off.” In it they discuss their findings of what often happens when women do just what Sheryl Sandberg...