When we love someone we really get to know them, right? We know our parents, our partners, our children. And I mean we really know them: we know their history; their likes and dislikes; their idiosyncrasies. We know what they want for presents; where they want to go on vacation; how they will respond to… Read More »
A Change of Consciousness on Immigration Reform
One of the wonderful things about writing regularly is being able to re-read my old work. It’s easy to see this as analogous to looking at old photos: a trip down memory lane, a way to revisit old memories and old experiences. But for me it can be something much more profound. It can be… Read More »
New Slaves?
“God bless America, land of the free.” So our proud nation sings, and so we believe, but is this really true? We proudly assert that we have removed the shackles of feudalism and racism from our society and are the most liberated, free-thinking, free-acting people in history, but is that really the case? A distinguished… Read More »
Living Left-Handed
I was raised right-handed. For most of my life my left-brain ruled: I was logical, organized, disciplined and structured and saw this as the superior mode of being. Bring on the sciences! But when I started meditating, my right brain began to wake up. At first this was confusing as I toggled between two modes… Read More »
Back To Nature
The title of this piece is a little tongue-in-cheek: humankind has developed a technological and economic culture that has transformed the world such that there is no real way to go “back to nature.” And as Thomas Hobbes once wrote, such a primitive world is not beautiful and idealistic, but rather “there is no place… Read More »
