Sacred travels once a year Hello friends! Sacred travels: Four Corners – the highlight of my June. I am a huge advocate of traveling somewhere new at least once per year. More than that, I lead a spiritual life and I have been trying to visit sacred places in...
Mindfulness and Grief The circle of life and my meditation practice all lead to a better understanding of mindfulness and grief. I’m in Tucson, attending a funeral. I honestly didn’t have the time to get to a normal Monday post, but I wrote some notes on...
Three Reasons I Meditate Once I discovered meditation in 2002, I never needed much motivation to continue the practice. But people ask me all the time why I continue my practice so diligently, and so I compiled a list of the biggest three reasons I meditate. When I...
Nine Spiritual Things You Learn While Traveling A couple weeks ago, on my last post, I shared that I was going to be doing some traveling. As I embarked on my journey, I quickly became aware of at least nine spiritual things you learn while traveling. I wasn’t...
Going on Some Sacred Journeys Friends, these next two weeks will differ from the routine: I will be going on some sacred journeys. Traveling gives you a different perspective, gets you out of your routine, and makes you think differently. –Cynthia Sageleaf My...
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...
It’s been quite a month. If you have been following along, you’ll know that I’ve ventured to the northeastern US, and to various places I hadn’t seen in my home state of North Carolina. I went on a personal retreat. And, I’ve taken...
A Solo Personal Retreat Doing this LIFE Project has sent me on a month of travels spanning 14 states (many of which we could only drove through on the way to other destinations) and most recently, to Mountain Light Sanctuary about an hour away from me. I had no goals...
Hello to all the wonderful folks who find themselves here at I & S. As you probably know, I’m out and about traveling the northeastern part of the US. It’s been an incredible trip so far, but I don’t have regular access to the internet. In fact,...