“How do you figure out what’s going on? Retreat into silence? Ask a lot of questions? Review every news feed? Get others’ opinions? Listen to CNN? Probably all come into play at one point or another. Distilling what’s going on and arriving at what is true for you is predicated on three elements: information, wisdom, and intuition. You synthesize information from external sources; you gain wisdom through personal experience, and you cultivate...

“The New Year brings with it the ideas of refreshing, resetting, renewing, reflecting, and within each there is a pull to improve yourself beyond what you now are. A plethora of courses, webinars, workshops, retreats, getaways, and teachable moments are flooding the airways, amplifying the feeling and need to learn, to study in order to progress…. Otherwise you risk what? Inadequacy? Failure? Weakness? Alas, our system has taught us a linear...

“It may be easy to accept this year ending and a new one beginning. It may be easy to accept making resolutions to improve yourself in 2024. It may be easy to accept going back to work after having some time off for the holiday season. All this is rather a matter of fact, perhaps tradition. What may not be easy to accept is the growing uncertainty of local and global circumstances that are impacting – figuratively and literally – your life....

“Chances are you reading this are already aware there is something more to life than getting up, eating, working, eating some more, sticking on Netflix, going to bed, and repeating this routine again, and again, and again. No doubt the latter is interspersed with some fun moments, complaints, regrets, and doubts topped with heavy dollops of distraction. You are beyond this hamster wheel – good on you! Now it’s a question of going beyond this...

“It is disconcerting to see that after a whirlwind of preparation, hecticness and inordinate busyness to ensure all is in readiness for Christmas – the 25th, compulsion, distraction and programming compel further frenzy on the 26th. Oh, that a day of pause can be taken if only to breathe and rest. No thinking is required although it is introspection and reflection that will most quench and still your heart’s unrest. Take up the unheard of, the...