June 2009

Later is Earlier is the Same as it Ever Was? Sitting on the couch at 6:02 and noting that oddly enough, with the Sun coming up earlier and earlier, I’m getting up later and later, which confused me for a few until I realized that hey, it’s also going down later and later, especially with [...]

Completing the Core The past two weeks I’ve been working on truing the wheel of my life, starting with the most core areas and working outward. All of this is part of the ongoing theme of self healing that began way way back on January 1st 2009. Remember back that far? All the changes so [...]

Hand Crafted As far as theme weeks go, this one was a doozy, and it will certainly bear repeating on a regular basis, as it seems that intimacy is a core issue, perhaps the core issue as we’ll see a bit later, and it also seems to bring stuff up–out of the frying pan and [...]

Sharing the Morning Pages I’ve been starting my day with 3 handwritten pages off and on for the past 10 years, full-on steady for the past 9 or 10 months. I wake up, walk to the couch, sit down and let the words pour out. It’s a process I initially lifted from Julia Cameron, author [...]

Prevention Doesn’t Healthy Make! The new Time Magazine is out. It’s the Health Issue and it purports to tell you How to Stay Out of the Hospital. According to Time, It’s all about Prevention. I think they got it bassackwards. There is no relationship between Prevention and Health, and while attempting to keep yourself out [...]

The Promise of Intimacy Intimacy. Is there any more misunderstood word in the English language? Any word that promises so much, yet seems so challenged to deliver the smallest amount? Any greater desire on the part of the average human being? When I wrote last week that I was going to bring out intimacy as [...]

Knives are a really good Invention! So going for real, fresh, unprocessed food definitely calls for more use of knives and less use of scissors, can openers, etc. And cutting out the excess of bs that can come flooding in as soon as you open the lid of your laptop calls for another type of [...]

Let’s go Fly a Kite! It has been a cold and rainy spring so far up here in boston, and this past weekend May have been the defacto beginning of summer, as we hit a trifecta of sorts here at the roslindale ranch. First off, I began harvesting the mesclun mix from the garden. That [...]

Balancing with the Moon As we begin the sixth month of the year, the initiation of the drive to halfway, the moon is a beautifully balanced 1st quarter, aka half moon, and the thing that keeps recurring for me in this weekly focus on self healing is the difficulty of achieving balance. There is always [...]