AGE — It’s Just a Number — Right
“Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which you were born.” Albert Einstein A couple of weeks ago Lar shaved his head. He looks in the mirror and says, “Who’s this old guy? I still feel like the same guy […]
Viewing Life From Love and Wholeness — Being your Love Self in the World
Where are you? Where is here? Is it a physical location? Are you identifying as a body? Or are you aware of your essential being, as the aware, knowing presence which is not bound to a location, in a body or some physical space. Take a moment to locate that essential self. Ask yourself the […]
Podcast: Reality vs What You Think About It
In today’s podcast episode we’re talking about how we’re constantly getting derailed from presence in the moment we’re in, by jumping into reacting to the stimuli in front of us as if we’re actually part of it. We leave our presence in favor of judgement about what should or shouldn’t be happening — or what […]
The Path of Present Joy
Let me ask you a question. Isn’t life about having experiences, enjoying and learning from those experiences? Don’t we want to be happy? Isn’t that what we say we want? Most of us take for granted that, yes, we want to be happy. After all, isn’t that the goal behind most of the choices we […]
Podcast: Ultimately You Are Your True Authority
In today’s episode we talking about how we find and live from each of our own integrity to true self verses out of obligation or deferring to some perceived authority. It’s amazing how quickly we can defer to a so-called authority, when a seeming crisis happens and loose touch with your genuine personal experience. So […]
May is Mother’s Day, National Mental Health Awareness Month and Mystery Month
“Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else’s happiness and wellbeing ahead of your own… and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.” — Donna Ball I know no greater balm to boost your mental health than LOVE: accepting life, just as it is moment to moment, immersing […]
Podcast: Living With Uncertainty
We’re always living with uncertainty. We just think we have control. None of us really know what’s going to happen next. We only have now and we have the ability to be fully present and actively alive and awake to what is happening right now.Am I resisting and spinning a story of future catastrophe, or am I accepting what’s […]
Living the Present Moment Poetry of Life
April is National Poetry month. I love how poetry enhances my life, opening my mind to another, more intimate view of what’s happening, besides my same ole, same ole assumptions, my conditioned mind tends to make. Years ago I was introduced to David Whyte’s poetry by my dear friend Patricia and I fell instantly in […]
Podcast: Living With Cancer — Living in the Emotional Rollercoaster
In today’s episode we’re talking the emotional journey we’re experiencing living with cancer and about staying in the conversation as emotions shift and change. Low grade depression, grief, moments of elation and the constant acceptance of life as it’s showing up at this moment. Lar talks about some specifics in his physical health and his […]
Podcast: #2 My Beta Readers Talk About My New Book — Baptized By Love: How I Found Present Joy and Never Let It Go
Lyn Gregory — my experience of reading the book —the comprehensive and cohesive elegant way you strung together the moments of your life created something that is really just such an exquisite memoir … You toss off nuggets that are so profound that happen, and while I’m reeling from the truth of that moment and […]