a glimpse of my authentic life
What I’m offering here today are a few stories that led to thoughts that led to other stories that may or may not fit together in any coherent manner. It is pretty much an echo of my inner and outer reality lately. On a Saturday morning a couple of weeks ago I was intent upon shifting my focus…
The latest novel by Tommy Hays, who I’ve crossed paths with for decades as part of the Asheville writing community, came out late last month. It’s called The Marriage Bed. For various reasons, I mostly read audiobooks these days, except when hunkering down with “real” books written by literary writerfriends…
These are no ordinary times. Not in the outer world, nor in the inner world of Self. For those focused above the fray, it is a potential time of self-discovery, of letting go of the old, of renewal on every level, of embracing possibility. What is happening now on Earth is unprecedented, unpredictable, and far reaching. Think galactic. It is an acceleration and…
Some of you might know that the actor Richard Chamberlain died on Saturday, March 29, at the age of ninety. It was this event, oddly enough, that led me to write this piece. First, a short tribute to an enormously gifted actor and remarkable human being. As memorial posts scrolling through Facebook all week reminded, it was the TV series Dr. Kildare…
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…