On this, the day after my 53rd Winter Solstice, I am reflecting more attentively than usual on the nature of time. Our understanding of time, or more specifically, our interpretation of it, is a human construct. Time is in the eye of the beholder, if you will. This was clarified to me through a beautiful…
Read moreMirabai Starr on the liberation of ordinary mysticism and keeping it real.
For you today. Mirabai Starr presents a cairn on our journey to real, human awakening with this reflection in relation to her 2024 book, Ordinary Mysticism: Your Life as Sacred Ground. All my life, I have been enamored of the God-intoxicated ones. Those rarified souls who slip into ecstatic states and spontaneously utter poetry. The ones…
Read moreMy story in The New York Times Modern Love: Looking at a Stranger and Seeing Myself
Yesterday, on Valentine’s Day, The New York Times Modern Love column featured my story—Looking at a Stranger and Seeing Myself. It will appear in print this Sunday. There have been many times in my life when I have been presented with wild and unimaginable opportunities—sometimes in the form of challenges, sometimes in the form of…
Read morePivot: Roots
This is my story. On November 14, 2024, I joined five other storytellers at the main-stage event of Pivot—a local storytelling event here in Spokane, WA—to share it, intimately, with an audience of 250 people. There is a different theme every event, and this time, we all were exploring the concept of “Roots.” This was…
Read moreChanging Shoes
After almost exactly ten years, I am returning to work full-time outside of my practice as a transpersonal therapist and energy healer. My practice remains open on weekends.
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