I like birds and I really like taking pictures of them. I must admit that I am partial to colorful birds – except not always. The frothy white feathers on a great white egret have been known to catch my imagination and the silhouette of...
One night I pulled into our local Pilot station to fill up our Prius with gas. To my surprise, as I stepped out of the car there were hundreds of Mayflies dancing in the overhead lights and alighting on my windshield, hood and top of...
"It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up." – Vince Lombardi No matter how good you get at being a "Yes" to your life, sooner or later you're bound to get upset and be caught in a thought loop - you know,...
Back in the mid-eighties, we walked into a health food store and noticed a tarot card reader who, for a nominal fee, offered short sessions for the store's clientele. The two of us were departing within the week for a six month intensive course at...
People are born into cultures that have stress as an expected component to the gestalt of the culture itself, so it is part of their cultural download. While many people do things to reduce stress, such as yoga, meditation or exercise, most of them never...
We recently received a phone call from one of our clients. She was frantic. She couldn't get it all done. There were so many deadlines. There was so much to produce, and there was so little time. We had a conversation with her and within...
We’re not implying that you shouldn’t have goals. What we are saying is that there is a different way to go about fulfilling your heartfelt desires, where there is well-being every step of the way and where you recognize that the result is not more...
As my wife Ariel and I boarded a small airplane in Ft. Lauderdale bound for Eleuthera in the Bahamas, I noticed the other passengers who would be flying with us. Some seemed to be Bahamians returning from shopping trips, while others were retirees. There was...
It had been years since Shya and I had eaten at an Ollie's Noodle House. In the 80s and 90s we used to go to Manhattan's Upper West Side to eat there. In those days we would make a special trip to have General Tso's...
Shortly before the car accident that our friends were in that could potentially have ended several lives, one passenger in back seat had the passing thought, "I wish I was in the driver's seat," but he didn't pay attention to his intuition. Another back seat...