Monday Morning Mojo

My best friend once attended a zen retreat in a sparse buiding in the mountains. It was cold. For seven days he sat with about eight other men cross legged.  Sounds pretty horrible – but he was glad he went. About half way through the experience the instructor slapped the floor and yelled, “Wake up!”

When my wife and I travelled to India and met our newly adopted daugher, we thought she was about six years old. Her facial features and height seemed like a little child’s. Over the course of the last three years in our home she has grown six years! We recently confirmed this with a bone

My son, Gabe, has got the photo bug. Last week he bought a new digital camera that does just about everything imaginable. Saturday he and I went out on the road for a full day of picture taking. He took pictures of plants, buildings, and people. I started by taking pictures of him. Then I

I dropped Sita off at doggy school Saturday. I hope she’ll come back with a PhD. But a BA would be great. If she just learns a couple of classes really well, I will be satisfied! Sita, at 120#, is one big puppy. She has two traits that are bred into her genes (1) she

Here in Washington, DC, I live in a land of obsessed with doing. But there is another way, known to many, which is all about being. Our brains are made to do and be. Doing is all about getting things done, analyzing, breaking things down into their parts, plotting the path from point A to

Your  beauty often shines in the areas where you struggle most. The Jungian idea of a shadow is that part of yourself that you do not claim, that you do not state or assert is part of you. Most often it refers to something that you are ashamed of or embarassed by. Inside that category

Many of the things that seem impossible now will become realities tomorrow! So opens the Disney Imagineering sizzle reel. If you haven’t seen this 2 1/2 minute video, I encourage you to check it out.  Just click on the image at the right. If you want to see your dreams come to life, learn from

This is Grafitti Alley in Ann Arbor. When you walk in, there are spray cans laying around for you to pick up and go at it. And it’s a good thing. Sometimes i have to cut loose and let my freak flag fly, as David Crosby sang in, Almost Cut my Hair, on the Crosby,

When I was in elementary school, I remember a class where a teacher asked us, “Who knows what it means to have a dog’s life?” I raised my hand and was called on. “It means you have everything taken care of for you. All your meals and needs are met. It’s an easy life.” The

Senator Theodore Bilbo, a Democrat from Mississippi was a racist as a matter of religious belief. He was fervent in his desire to prevent the races from mixing in any way, shape, or form. There “is every reason to believe that miscengenation and amalgamation are sins of man in direct defiance to the will of