Tools for a Deeply Connected Relationship

When two people commit to each other they do so believing their love is strong and want it to grow even stronger over time.  My dad used to call marriage a Mutual Admiration Society Read More...

Read more...

In Its Time...

A while back while re-reading Gayle Brandeis’ book “Fruitflesh” I was reminded again of the luscious sensual wisdom of our bodies. Read More...

Read more...

Desire … is it of God?

Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

- Ps 37:4 Read More...

Read more...

Stubborn Winters

I don't usually do winter gracefully - I get tired of being cold, I get tired of the gray, I get tired of the waiting ... and tho spring has always come in her time ... like a doubting Thomas, by late winter I always wonder will she leave us this year in our perpetual frozen Narnia? Read More...

Read more...

Delight and Attention ... Communion and Prayer

"Except for paying attention, what else is continual prayer?"

This is the last line of a poem by Samuel Green that speaks of the acuity of our attention in times of mourning. Read More...

Read more...

Your Time To Live ...

Today as I walked around the lake near my home the chill in the air was softened by the sun’s rays reminding me that winter will in the end relent and spring will come. Read More...

Read more...

What Children Have to Teach Us about Pure Sensual Joy

There is something so refreshing and soul nourishing in the innocent observations of children. Before they are infected by societal messages of what or who is appropriate and inappropriate, valued and unvalued and all the judgments regarding what they ‘should’ think and feel.  Read More...

Read more...

A Failure of Imagination ...

In the documentary/movie “What the Bleep” an Amazon mythic tale is told of how the people could not see the a ship in their harbor because never in their collective experience had they ever seen anything like a ship. Read More...

Read more...