INITIATION: Put Down Your Weapons & And Reveal Your Gift This much I know is true, when you throw your hat in the ring and say yes to life, there will be a test, an initiation. If you would like to listen to an audio of this being read by…

I needed to listen, so I went to the loudest place I could find: Burning Man I was flirting with an existential crisis: Trust had fallen from my pocket while speeding down the highway of life; and in the absence of Trust — Doubt and The Critic had slinked right…

When George W. Bush was elected, I knew I had to do something. I decided to be, as William Ury puts it, response-able to playing a part in helping this country become the best version of itself. …

We discovered that it’s not just how you live but how you die that can spark a revolution. That a call for mama will summon the mother that lives within all of us to protect our most vulnerable.

There are stories made for these times, Their design woven from an architecture designed to hold and educate us about how to be here now. Many of these old stories go the same way: a mysterious person arrives from an unknown place. This unknown person weaves a story, and casts…

Here is a recipe for how to love with an undefended heart: 3 cups courage Then place those cups aside. Because by the time your heart puts down the armor to love with an undefended heart, courage is no longer part of the equation. The undefended heart knows that a…

Love. I was 24 when I fell in love for the first time. Two days after Mark and I met, we were hiking and camping in the canyons and caves of the Utah desert. Our love was easy, fun, and playful. Smooth like butta’. He had loved before, and knew…

I was born in the wake of MLK Jr’s dream. I wonder how different the world might be if MLK Jr had preached to the masses about his fear of a day when white surpremists ruled the land, when inequality of degradation of the human spirit was expected, when the…

On Ending And Beginnings. Here we rest in the wake of the winter solstice, in the midst of an eclipse on the edge of a new moon. walking toward a threshold that leads to a new decade. And… we are in a unique epoch of time, I once heard that…