From Darkness into Light This week, in the northern hemisphere, we are approaching Winter Solstice and the turn ever so slightly toward longer days and shorter nights. It’s a shifting out from the darkness and into more light. Now is an ideal time to reflect on the year to date, and where you may be […]
Restore and Replenish Ultimately, this practice helps “ready and steady” you for success as you return to the world refreshed and more available to handle its opportunities, challenges and stresses. During this time of year, as nature slows down and takes a quiet breather to restore and replenish, it’s a good time to revisit our […]
The Meaningfulness of Meaning: Living a Life Worthwhile In this edition of Soul Notes, we explore the concept of meaning and what that constitutes in terms of a meaningful life. In this article, I’ll make references to one of Viktor Frankl’s books, originally entitled From Death Camp to Existentialism, now more commonly known by the […]
Where there’s heat there’s power: Right from the core During this week of the new moon and the equinox, it’s a powerful time to feel into where you may be out of balance in your life, and to consider ways to bring yourself into a state of equilibrium. From the core: the seat of equilibrium […]
The Great American Eclipse, Oh My! It’s a particularly energetically charged time in the United States, as evidenced by recent politically volatile and even at times highly venomous and violence-infused protests, and counterprotests, resulting in understandable public outcries and feelings of despair and disbelief. Perhaps then not-so-coincidentally, with this rare total solar eclipse, in the […]
What about the water? Varying to some degree only by age and gender, our human bodies are approximately 70 percent water. Water is the primary building block of human cells. And, water covers nearly 71 percent of the Earth’s surface. It’s vitally important to our existence, as individuals and as a species. And yet, or […]
Staying the course, of course! Or, rather, is it time to make a course correction? “Without paying close attention, it’s easy to get off-course.” Sailing back home from Catalina Island Years back, a friend invited me to join him and a few of his friends for a weekend of sailing. We left the shores of […]
A Strong Constitution When someone refers to someone else as having a “strong constitution,” they usually mean that the person is of strong mind and body. They see that person as having a grounded, centeredness about them – a hardy, stable core and foundation, from which all else stems. The same can be said with […]
Now is all we have, and it’s a lot! One oh so enchanting evening In this edition of Soul Notes we explore what it means to capture those special moments in time. Sitting in front of my casita, from atop the cliffs high above the smooth sea, along the central coastline of Mexico: I am […]
From idealist to lost in the practice of law I set off to the University of California at Berkeley as a budding journalist. What better place, perhaps, than at the home of the Free Speech movement? Along the way, I spent two college summers in Washington, DC, living in Georgetown, and interning in the nation’s […]
