a glimpse of my authentic life
I’m beginning this on Friday, 19 December 2025 at home in Longmont, CO. After a massive wind storm early this morning, there have been hours of eerie dead silence. No wind, no sun, no people, no cars, no planes, no birds, even the heat furnace silent due to the warm 63 degree outside temperature. At about 5:30 this morning gale force gusts woke me…
Solstice
It is the twentieth of June 2025. The summer solstice in northern Colorado, where I now live, began tonight at 8:42. For the last hour, I’ve been participating in an online meditation/celebration that just completed. The energy is extraordinary in this pivotal year of unprecedented change…
I’ve now been living in Longmont CO for over three and half months, and I must admit that, much sooner than I could have imagined, I came to the point where I no longer looked back. I can’t say that Colorado now feels like home, although it does feel like the absolute right place for me to be. The idea of “home” has become more difficult to define lately…
The world is becoming curiouser and curiouser, and I’ve been exploring the most expansive ways to stay above the fray. That’s what I call being in observer mode, holding the larger vision for myself and for humanity. If I feel my solar plexus beginning to spin, I know I’m getting stuck in the mire…
My goal has been to post on this blog twice a month, but for the last few months, this hasn’t been going so well. In May and June I only posted once, and not until the next to the last day of each month. And now, in July, I find myself in the same dilemma. In part this happens when personal challenges — physical, emotional, mental/spiritual — come up with certain intensity, the consequences (and potential gifts, I tell myself) on a path of self-discovery…