I was driving to pick up Tin and passed the church on Canal and Jeff Davis that always has the best teasers on their marquee – today it was DJesus Unchained. Earlier I had gotten out of the shower and taken a look at my shower curtain – the one with the goldfish jumping out of the water. I purchased it as I had had that dream of Tin and I watching a fish jumping…
Let’s play the yes, and game. You know how it goes, instead of saying no, but which is what most of us say to any possibility of anything in our life, we say yes, and. I started playing this game a few weeks ago, and suddenly everything changes. And everyone changed. It’s as if the minute I started looking at the world differently, the world was different. I’m telling you – you can change your…
There is a story of a young, but earnest Zen student who approached his teacher, and asked the Master, “If I work very hard and diligently, how long will it take for me to find Zen? The Master thought about this, then replied, “Ten years … .” The student then said, “But what if I work very, very hard and really apply myself to learn fast — How long then?” Replied the Master, “Well, twenty…
I’m still watching In Treatment, even though tonight, finishing one disc, I felt like throwing the whole thing out the window. How to tell when you are done watching other people’s problems – when you get sick of them. I watched the first episode with the woman who gets pregnant but never wanted to be a single mother (um, thanks); I watched the cancer patient whose hair is about to all fall out (the woman…
I met an interesting woman at the conference this weekend, her name is Lynn Jericho. She was doing a workshop on Anthroposophy, Rudolph Steiner’s philosophy that I still find is so steeped in esoteric vocabulary that it’s difficult for me to plunge the depths of Steiner. So I was looking forward to the session to learn more about this man’s writings and teachings. It was a fascinating session both from staring into the blue, blue…
I just returned from Chapel Hill where I was attending a regional conference of Waldorf Schools, and while I went there to present on what we are doing here in New Orleans with marketing and outreach, I came away with a lot of food for thought. Waldorf is a departure from the traditional notion of education where a teacher speaks to the child’s mind, only. The Waldorf education is about teaching to the child’s mind…
Today is the first day of the rest of my life, or so said my friend when she dropped me off from Zumba last night. I’m going to be presenting tomorrow at a conference for Waldorf educators and next weekend will be at a conference about undoing racism. I woke this morning and was overwhelmed with gratitude that I was able to get off the golden cow teat and get on the path that my…
I was reading a little bit from my Power of Now book this morning and thinking about how the premise is that thinking really gets in the way and sort of screws up the experience. Because the mind is like a steel trap keeping all the hurts and failures and misdeeds in there like a continual loop of doom playing in the background. No matter how you want to experience something for true, for new,…
“You have not failed! So get that thought out of your head right away! Yes, you might not have succeeded at what you long to achieve yet, but this does not mean you’ve failed. Get back to that vision with renewed faith and dedication. Your ancestors will never give you a vision, without giving you the tools to see it through. Get back in that fight.” – James Weeks/Across The King’s River
I’ve been contemplating money and the pains we go to earn it, so that we can spend some of it, and then we all (most of us) feel that we never have enough of it and I started thinking about what “it” is because I’m reading a book to Tin that is what people do for work. Money buys things like homes, clothes, and cars – more money buys bigger homes and more clothes and…