“A few minutes before the meeting begins, you feel yourself drifting away, away into a soft, lush setting where the greens and pinks and yellows are unlike any color you have ever seen. You walk gently – the ground has asked you to, and you oblige willingly. Birdsong fills the air: a soft breeze nudges your cheek, and it beckons you to the sparkles of a waterfall nearby. A curious rabbit hops in front of you, nodding its head in approval as you...

“You’re doing your best. You’re trying hard to make things work, make them better, have some positive effect on what’s going on around you. Despite your utmost efforts, it seems the situation is deteriorating. Events and the people involved in those events are ever struggling or are manipulating the strugglers. Something is wrong with this picture. Or is it? Having done what you can, you cease your attempts at fixing; you retreat; you go within...

“Whether making a banking inquiry, ordering supplies, completing a purchase, filling a prescription or receiving a legal update, you can expect to be on hold – waiting for the representative, agent, customer service officer, care ambassador, salesperson, account executive, administrator, accounts payable individual to connect to you.  It can be perplexing, frustrating, annoying, time consuming unless you are doing something else while...

“Did you have a chance to catch it? The passing remark made during a brief conversation – a conversation unexpected, brief, and pleasant but not planned all the same? Did you have the ears to hear and the flash of discernment to take in the significance of those couple of words? Unimportant in and of themselves, however when put together, they were an answer to your prayer. A solution for a friend in need: dazzling in its simplicity and cosmic...

“What if you had an amazing dragon that you could ride across the horizon and into the clouds? What if those clouds carried you both into the deep blue expanse of the cosmos where your attention fixed upon an alluring star? A star of sparkling gold, pink and white, that you set your internal compass to? To that star you, on trusty, devoted steed, flew toward until you reached its luminous edges, feeling exhilarated and free? What if you were...

“Who doesn’t like mudpuddles?  Remember when you were a kid, and it was so appealing to test out a puddle. You wanted to know how deep it was. The thrill of finding out was just that: did the water go over your toes, your feet, your boots? Though you half-expected the soaker, it was always a surprise when it happened. Walking home with soggy feet was not fun but this was the least of your worries. Knowing your mom might not be pleased...