Our Former River Property – All that Remains is a Chimney In the coming weeks and months, my guests in our upcoming series on Choosing Compassion over Fear will be sharing their personal stories. My teacher Fr. Richard tells me that there are…
My Grandsons, Playing Teppich This week’s blogs have been about learning to be in that “wondering place,” at peace with not knowing what lies ahead. I’d like to tell you a short story. When I was young, my…
Front Patio of Our Desert Home In the northern hemisphere, fall is in the air. Our days are getting shorter. Low, slanting rays of sunlight are replacing the full-on beams of high summer. The lengthened shadows foretell the steady progression toward the darkness of winter. In nature, fall is a…
I’m pleased to introduce Dr. Dawna Markova. Dawna is an internationally renowned thought leader and personal growth expert. She has lived many incarnations in the past seven decades as an author, teacher, psychotherapist,…
Pickle Ball with our Grandson and his Friend This week’s blogs have explored the upsides and the potential downsides of a focused life. On the continuum from FOCUSED to DISTRACTED, Ed and I regularly err on the side of too much FOCUS, undoubtedly sacrificing important…
Us Being Focused In my last blog, I shared a true story about my parents’ extraordinary selfless service to leprosy patients in Paraguay, South America as an illustration of the Metta Center’s definition of true generosity: “True generosity … the act of recognizing the…