“No need for the beads, the amulet, the feather or the colour purple. No need to put on the right shoe first; go out the door from the left; carry the worry stone or cross yourself when seeing a black cat. No need to invoke every saint who walked the earth or call in all the archangels. What will happen, will happen and you know what? You already have what you need inside you. What is it? It is love. It is a light so bright that every fear has...

“I write for a living.  After years of editing and proofing, you’d think reviewing an article would be easy.  Apparently not! I’m in the midst of a fourth text exchange with a supplier and wondering if fatigue, distraction, weaker eyesight, miscommunication or a combination thereof has lead me to repeat, repeat, repeat. In thinking about this, I realize how much we may miss, misinterpret in everyday life due to skewed optics: not just of...

“Summer is finally coming to North America where I live and with it seems to be a burst of events, visits, invitations, phone calls, confirmations, occasions, holidays and celebrations that winter just won’t oblige. Why even this Gentle Message is being written a day earlier! Fortunately the energy level is up and rising to the challenge of accepting all these opportunities and then getting to them on time. (Again snow, ice and wind just don’t...

“I looked out the window and saw an empty space. The sky was no longer filled with green moving against blue. The once hidden foundation of a roughly hewn garage was in plain sight – once beautifully camouflaged by one of nature’s splendors. I could now see clear across the large yard to the other street but it was of no real value to the majestic tree that once graced my view.  I was sad but probably nowhere near the agony the other tree was...

“Defining your abundance with what external parties say: your parents, media, the boss, a partner, your friends, the dictionary, may lead you to a state of frustration, disillusionment and even envy.  Is it money, good looks, an established career, well-appointed home, excellent health, smart kids, having a partner that identify abundance in your life?  If any of these are missing, then a pursuit is likely to attain one or a few of them. “When...

“Some of you have been reading me for a while now, and periodically I receive notes of appreciation for the Gentle Message that has particularly resonated that week.  I don’t have any formula or strategy as to what I will be writing any one week. Ideas pop into my head, and away I go.  This time it is a wish for you – that despite the hardness of life, its challenges, its unrelenting changes and unwelcome news, the soul-calm that resides...