Coming Alive to the World

Coming Alive to the World

As a poet, as an artist, one of the core skills we need to develop and cultivate is a radical attentiveness to the world around us, an awakeness to our senses and the sense impressions all around us. We need to sharpen our senses to a keenness that hears, feels,...
Time to Forgive

Time to Forgive

(This is one of my journal musings followed by a valuable life practice added to the end. Hence, the intimate, personal style of the beginning.) Time to forgive the horrors of the past, the wounds I carry:  CalArts, my parents, an  unforgiving world, our sick culture....
The Second Helpful Spirit: Imagination

The Second Helpful Spirit: Imagination

With the spirit of Imagination, you make use of your natural, brilliant, creative imagination (that we all have) to help light the way, inspire you, and call forth what you dream for your life. Using visualization, writing, dancing the dream, collage, vocalization,...
The 5 Helpful Spirits

The 5 Helpful Spirits

I’m going to share with you something I haven’t shared before, the Five Helpful Spirits that I have identified really help you to co-create your life dreams with greater ease and grace and fun. I think of them as magical spirits, but you  might also call...