Got to savor the moments- The moments of relief from anxiety, stress, fears. Stress is the water we are swimming in, whether you’re in the shallow end of the pool or the deep end, we are all still wet. Stress is an interesting coupling of resistance and desire. The resistance is fairly self evident, when one…
Our lives are a series of daily decisions that either enhance, liberate or diminish our spirit. Those decisions are either expressions of self-love or acts of sabotage. Routine is very often an act of self-love. Whether you get up to meditate or to walk the dogs on a cold day or go take a run. The…
It’s amazing how inspired and inspiring some people are, how despondent others seem to be and then there’s the middle group who just seem to be getting through. Of course there are nuances and human variations inside of these three generic conditions but it’s a place to start.I used to jump out of bed very…
We all have our different values- where we shine our light- where we put our attention.MONEY-HEALTH-FAMILY-CAREER and others, obviously. We also have an Ontological compass- a different North South East and West that life asks of Us. We have our Crosses to Bear, our Traumas to Work Out, our Karma to Understand and our Dharma to Surrender To- Our ‘Crosses to…
Vocabulary reflects where we live, reflects the times we live in. When certain vocabulary moves from the background to the foreground and becomes daily nomenclature, it’s reflecting the zeitgeist of the times. Pivot is a word that is now bandied about and has an entirely different connotation. Pivot is used as a business term today for taking a new direction, but Pivot reflects the culture, nothing is secure, one must be in a constant…
We walk by people every day making snap judgements. How they look, an attitude, a way someone’s dressed. We don’t have a clue what might be going on in that person’s life. They might have lost a job that they loved or extenuating circumstances have put them into a compromising position or worse, they might…
As the year nears completion, we do a review of what that year yielded both personally and globally. It’s been a year of crisis, more people have been impacted by difficulties and challenges. It’s not been easy-so many people have been hit by the virus of divisiveness and violence, it’s hit our world, our domestic…
In times where there doesn’t seem like there is any way out of the abject despair and the insurmountable violence and chaos that is in your face and sometimes right in your house, whats a person to do?You have to continually affirm life and love. It is not easy in the face of heartbreak and…
What do you say, when there doesn’t seem to be anything worth saying or that there’s no one listening. What do you do when mostly you only have attack and revenge as your palette. What do you do when your global leadership is either corrupt or checked out or both. The lines of what’s insane…
When Jack and Gigi were very young, Gigi was 1 1/2 and Jack was 3, we found the very best nanny to help take care of them. Her name was Yadis but Gigi couldn’t pronounce her name so Gigi called her YaYa and that name stuck for all time. She was definitely YaYa to all…