Three Opportunities to Make Your Own Traditions Friends! What an incredible time of year and I wanted to write this post about three different “occasions” that really all stemmed from one (you’ll find out what I mean in this post). From there,...
Happy Monday to everyone! Have I got a story for you: On Friday, I purchased something called an SSL certificate to upgrade the security for my website. Little did I know, it would require 24-48 hours to propagate around the world – meaning my website would have...
I thought I’d have a little fun this week with a flash fiction story. Little by little, I’m working on “my game” for good, inspirational stories that aren’t cheesy. I’m so grateful to explore stories, poetry, and even artwork in the...
Spirituality as Creative Expression Is a person spiritual because they are creative? Or is a person creative because they are spiritual? But then again, I don’t think these two questions are mutually exclusive. Exploring spirituality and the idea of creativity...
Friends, September ended and I successfully completed a month of eating a vegan diet. I slipped up once: on 30 September: I bought a bag of Funyuns (you know, those onion-ring-flavored things) and started devouring them because I needed some carbs – stat. Looked...
If you have been getting my newsletters (subscribe below if you don’t and would like to get them), then you know that I introduced this topic in my last one. Talking about the disadvantages of meditation is not widely popular or known. But, after some...
Peaceful Hawk On Thursday, Sept. 21, the world will celebrate the International Day of Peace. This is the one day where I have the most hope that humans will choose peace – not arms, not war, not hatred. But instead, they will choose to put down their arms, they...
It’s been awhile since I wrote a poem and I’ve been needing to get into a groove of creativity: I’m feeling a need to paint or create, without a reason. Without it being a means to an end. The world we live in today has shown us that we humans have...
It’s hard to believe that I’m starting the 6th month of the LIFE Project! Six months of walking 10K steps per day, meditating for 60 minutes, reciting my Sanskrit mantra, my affirmations, reading a book of the month and doing the monthly challenge....