Not Doing is Your Undoing
July 7, 2025
We don’t need pessimists or optimists. Or for that matter, “realists.” We need activists! People who act on their values, walking their path of passion and purpose.
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Writing is part of my meditative process to clarify my thoughts, to align my actions and to focus on my purpose. I write about my emotions, my shortcomings, and my ideas for a better world through poetry, prose, and what I call rantifestos every day, some of which I post here on my blog and on social media. I share them to help others move along their paths to live and lead with compassion.
Crooked Hearts, Crooked Neighbors
August 7, 2023
You shall love your crooked neighborwith your crooked heart. WH Auden If only it were all so simple!If only there were evil people somewhereinsidiously committing evil deeds,and it were necessary only to separate
Altruism is innate, but it’s not instinctual
June 6, 2023
All of us came from the same place. Our ancestry has a common origin. Part of our shared heritage is our altruism. We have the DNA within us that yearns to help one another. But over time our given traits are smoothed over by time and necessity. We can forget our roots and our true selves.
Good versus harm. Are we net positive?
April 18, 2023
I know you think you are a good person. Everyone does. And you are. But thinking and being are two different things.
The Game of Life
September 6, 2022
The ego interferes with your full presence. The craving for status needs to be monitored and minimized. This opens your mind, your heart and eyes to a much bigger world that can never be reduced to dollars. Compassion and love become new scripts. Discovering who you are and what you want provides moral clarity and makes the game of life worth living.
To favor the flower, we must respect the roots
August 8, 2022
What if we knew what was inside every person, every situation, every thing? I am not just talking about the search or pursuit of the truth, but a view into the forces that caused the manifestation on the surface. A way to deepen our empathy and understanding of what is really going on.
The Ocean of Community
June 27, 2022
We can not make real progress without engaging our enemies in the process of peace and a shared vision. Community must be truly inclusive, equitable and diverse.
Kindness Credit Score
January 24, 2022
Within each of us is this vast ocean of goodness and kindness lapping up on the shores of our lives every day. But we resist opening our hearts and minds to these enormous reservoirs of love and goodwill.
Unstable from a heavy heart
June 19, 2021
You encounter someone unstable from a heavy heart, get closer and listen.
Your unique form of mystical madness
May 24, 2021
If you are awake and paying attention you are numb and your heart is broken. One set of hate acts flows into another set of unimaginable examples of our darkest sides. It can be overwhelming.
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