“Was it you who asked, “Why is the sky blue?” when you were little? Did you ask “why” a lot then?  And when you went to school, were you the one who raised your hand to answer a question so many times that the teacher passed you over any time someone else had their hand up? Or maybe you never raised your hand because you knew the teacher had no answer for the questions you kept in your head? Perhaps most important now is, “Why have you...

“It must be the weather… the heat, not only sunny and very hot but also laden with high humidity, makes for some discomfort. The threat of severe thunderstorms confirms the heaviness of the day. Based on experience, you can generally anticipate a heavy downpour will bring relief: cooler temperatures, perhaps a lower humidex and maybe a little, refreshing wind into the mix. Transpose this description and you have a similar scenario playing...

“The more you hold them in, the harder it is once they finally have a way out. Your feelings need to be expressed particularly in these times when your sensitivity and their amplitude are increasing. Whether one attributes this increase to greater light energy or global circumstances is not as important as realizing that you are growing aware of yourself as a human, feeling being. Your sense of self – of who you are – is shifting from what...

“The letters came before the words: “l” and “s” to be exact. Soon after the words tumbled out like a babbling brook. “Languid, luxurious, lovely, lively, looney, then serene, serendipitous, silly, spontaneous, soft, created by life itself unfolding in synchronistic fashion. After all, why would “l” and “s” be top of mind? Not presently memorable or even in alphabetical order, nevertheless emerging to segue into Love Self. And so, it is. Love...

“Taken from a dictionary, this word means “a feeling of great pleasure and happiness”. The word in question is “joy”.  Generally, it’s always been associated with the holiday season – Christmas, yuletide specifically. But isn’t summer a season full of holidays, too? Of vacationing and en(joying) yourself? Perhaps the type of pleasure feels different: crazy and playful in summer while more so fulfilling and blissful in the winter months?...

“Are you a phone call away or in a distant galaxy? Within reach or far afield? Ready to respond or always busy? Physically there and then not so much? A north star for a troubled soul? A super nova that flames out much too fast? The shoulder to cry on? On your watch or not on your watch? The back that carries the load or turns away from taking on discomfort? In service for self or in service for others? Sometimes there’s an in between. Even...