There is a meditation I have followed in which the guide has me thinking of a tiny pinprick of light in the middle of my chest. As the meditation continues,…
In Biosphere 2, a closed ecosystem experiment that was tried in Arizona, the trees that grew inside this giant greenhouse-like structure were weak because they were never exposed to wind…
I read this article today that I found still resonates to this day. One part in particular that I continue to dance with is this: Grief crowds the heart, eats…
All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My…
We spend the weekend in beautiful Sebastopol, CA, this weekend. It reminds me of the Napa of my youth, still feeling like a small country outpost. It’s a cute little…
I was in São Paulo, Brazil, last week. I was there only four days, having gone down for work as a last minute business trip to which I added a couple…
My recent trip to Brazil was the first time I traveled with my Portuguese passport. It was a strange feeling, traveling so far from “home” as a citizen of another…
People often refer to their personal or spiritual exploration as a “journey.” It seems to me that a more appropriate metaphor is to “drop anchor.” We are always in motion,…
Garden I’ve spent the last six months talking with landscape contractors, general contractors, and kitchen designers. I have decided that the landscape architect was a waste of time and money,…
The last few days in Panama have been illustrative. I wasn’t sure what to expect when I agreed to do a workshop here for a large multinational company. All I…