Sunset for Photo Friday. Taken in the San Juan Is…

“Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.” -Heraclitus I am reading a book called Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life by Dr. Mark Epstein. In it, he recounts a story of playing with his son and one of his stuffies right after the 9/11 tragedy….

Here’s some inspiration for these times: “I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.” “Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. I can imagine a fully…

Another face of God 

I am (s)he that aches with amorous love; Does the earth gravitate? does not all matter, aching attract all matter? So the body of me to all I meet or know. -Walt Whitman

This is Devil Pirate Duckie, Patron Saint of Healing Baths and Sacred Cleansing for Pirates like me Today I am cleansing myself of all past relationships and behaviors which have not honored my Spirit. Today I say no to allowing people to hide me from their “other” loved ones so they can “honor their needs…