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Looking for love in all the RIGHT places
Posted on February 1, 2021 43 Comments
“Joy is the justice we give ourselves.”—Drew Lanham Happy Monday, my beautiful friends! It’s Hedgehog Day (when Taz always sends me a hedgehog from her dance floor in the cosmos) and it’s 2-22 month when, in exactly three weeks, I’ll be awarding the third Taz Grout 222 Foundation award. In the meantime, I want to […]
Choosing a more nourishing narrative
Posted on June 13, 2020 64 Comments
“What time but now can truth be recognized?”—A Course in Miracles With all the uncertainty right now, it’s tempting to fill in the blanks with despair. When we don’t really know what’s going to happen—with the pandemic, with the economy, with the daily unrest—it’s easy to fast forward to fear. Lately, I’ve been doing just […]
Why not let the universe surprise you
Posted on January 27, 2020 38 Comments
“From a new perception comes a future very different from the past.”—A Course in Miracles It’s time, guys! Time to break free from all stale, boring, petrified concepts. Why stay trapped in a prison of scarcity, a ticking time bomb of fear? A Course in Miracles is very clear—the dominant paradigm is nothing but a […]
Magic is afoot!
Posted on December 27, 2019 21 Comments
“Through it all, I keep coming back to love as the answer, the golden repair that lasts.”–Sue Cochrane You know those bobble head dogs that people put in their back car window? That’s what it’s like for me here at the Namaste community in Ajijic, Mexico. I keep hearing things that resonate so deeply and […]
Just in: My monkey mind officially announces its theme song
Posted on April 8, 2019 44 Comments
“When you get stuck fighting small battles, it makes you small.”—Hank Green You’ve probably heard it: Sir Mix-a-Lot’s “Baby Got Back.” The all-time favorite line of my monkey mind (the Course calls it my ego) is “I like big but’s and I cannot lie.” Monkey mind doesn’t just LIKE big but’s. It throws them out […]
222 Forever: A treatise on eternal possibility
Posted on February 22, 2019 56 Comments
“Love is not a gated community.”—Frank Ostaseki Yes, my friends, it’s finally here. The auspicious date when Taz’s 222 Foundation announces recipient numero uno of its annual $10,222 grant. Sheroes Hangout is an incredibly inspiring café/coffee shop in Agra, India, not far from the Taj Mahal where I left part of Taz’s ashes. I discovered […]
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Posted on December 18, 2018 55 Comments
“Closure is a perfectly good word for real estate and business deals, but it’s a terrible word in human relationships. Once you’ve become attached to somebody, love somebody, you cannot cut it off. It is part of your being. It’s a part of who you are.”–—Pauline Boss . Since writing E-Squared and hearing from so […]
My magical Taz: snapshots of a life of incomparable goodness, grace and gusto
Posted on October 29, 2018 218 Comments
‘There are certain things that happen to you as a human being that you cannot control or command, where you have to bow in the human humility that there’s something running through you that’s bigger than you.”—Elizabeth Gilbert As many of you have pointed out, there really are no words. My beautiful daughter, Tasman McKay […]
Fierce love, will travel
Posted on October 22, 2018 512 Comments
“In order to keep us going, it is enough to be grateful for the next breath, because it’s not to be taken for granted that I can take another breath.”–David Steindl-Rast Some 25 years ago, I was invited to a small gathering with a psychic who had flown into Connecticut from California. I went along, […]
Why I’m the luckiest person on the planet, Episode 87
Posted on August 2, 2018 28 Comments
“It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.”—Calvin & Hobbes So happy to be back here on the blog after an extraordinarily epic girlfriend’s road trip. For those who follow me on Facebook, you might have noticed I sang praises at a beautiful Buddhist stupa in the wilds of Colorado, visited an […]
