Father’s Day ’07
The United States is one of the few countries in the world to set aside a day to celebrate Fatherhood. Every third Sunday in June, fathers across the U.S. get tackled, teased, doted upon, and given a wide assortment of horrible ties chosen by their offspring! To the attentive fathers out there who may stumble…
Influences & Expectations
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the level of social conditioning that most of us in the West endure without even realizing it. There is so much of our world that revolves around an unthinking mob mentality which has been conditioned in to us. Some of this conditioning may actually be healthy on a…
The lost art of Communication
Why does it seem nobody can communicate clearly and effectively any longer? Interpersonal communications these days are often marked by misinterpretation of the speaker’s intention, ending in what can sometimes be pretty drastic results! Why is this, though? Is it on the part of the speaker that things get conveyed ineffectively to the audience, or…
Organic art
Did you know that your food cupboard is an art material warehouse? Yes, really! Next time you search through it, gathering old canned foodstuffs with expired dates stamped on their lids, consider bringing those materials outside for an excercise in creativity! Yes, there is an art project in your cupboard, waiting for you to discover…
Warrior
I awoke this morning to the word “warrior” bouncing around my brain, and an image of a warrior woman in the deep tropic forest, going slightly uphill, with a spear in her left hand, obviously on a hunting trail of some sort. Now, that’s certainly an image of a warrior that has had a fair…
A New Assignment
At the end of participating in a yoga 1 class, I get a message from my Spirit Guides to “teach yoga”. Ummm, huh? Now I like yoga, really, I do! It’s a great way to stretch and relax and a great way to get into shape, but for me to teach it? I know next…
Conscious Decisions
Every moment holds within it a decision. Yes, really – every moment. Sometimes these decisions may be enormous such as deciding between life and death, or sometimes they may be quite subtle such as blinking your eyes or scratching an itch. But how many of these decisions, on a moment to moment basis, are you…
Honest Lies
Recently, I was reading through a forum where the question of whether lying to a friend made the author of the thread a good friend or not… … ummm… Whaaaaattt?!