I wish there were a sim­ple thing I could call myself. “I’m a .…” How­ever, at this time in my life, I haven’t been able to find that. So, I say I am an eclec­tic spir­i­tual guide, min­is­ter and life coach. I draw upon the best teach­ings and tra­di­tions both ancient and mod­ern along […]

So I went to the Pagan Pride Day yes­ter­day and had a good time over-all. I was invited to give talks at two other places. I must admit I was uncom­fort­able at the inter­faith round­table. The pres­i­dent of the Inter­faith Dia­logue Asso­ci­a­tion is a friend of mine and a Hindu. He invited me to be […]

Tomor­row I’m going down to Kzoo to hang with the pagans. It’s Pagan Pride Day there with a big fes­ti­val in the park. I’ll give a sem­i­nar in the morn­ing on “Walk­ing In the Light” and in the after­noon I’ll be part of an inter­faith round­table dis­cussing our sim­i­lar­i­ties. The rest of the day will […]

This is the sec­ond anniver­sary of when we had the shit scarred out of us and we agreed to trade our free­dom for secu­rity. Two years into the war on ter­ror, wars in two coun­tries that we have focused on and how many that have gone under the radar. Are we any safer? Are we […]

Well, I’ve just been lis­ten­ing to “N.Y. Times” op-ed colum­nist and econ­o­mist Paul Krug­man describ­ing the rape of Amer­ica on NPR’s “Fresh Air”. He makes a pow­er­ful case about how the Bush admin­is­tra­tion is engaged in a huge give-away to the rich while gut­ting the gov­ern­ment and its abil­ity to pro­vide ser­vices for the poor […]

What a scourge on the earth. Tak­ing people’s spir­i­tual long­ings and fos­iliz­ing them. It’s been said that going to church on Sun­day is a good innoc­u­la­tion against a real spir­i­tual expe­ri­ence. The spirit is wild and free yet peo­ple want to domes­ti­cate it. We’re asked to remem­ber the spir­i­tual expe­ri­ences some­one had long ago and […]

Abun­dance is every­where around us and within us. God has cre­ated this world with every­thing we need to live life abun­dantly. Our hearts are over­flow­ing with love, kind­ness, gen­er­ousity, joy and peace–unless we have hard­ened them and cut our­selves off from the source of all life and love. The world is over­flow­ing with all the […]

Late sum­mer day. Sun shin­ing beau­ti­fully on the trees. Dead car­di­nal lying on my deck. Flow­ers in bloom. Some plants begin­ning to fade. Grass needs mow­ing. Life hap­pens all around us, in us. We are part of the end­less cycle of life and death. Our fate is con­nected to the fate of every other creature […]

How does one live life? One day at a time. The past is over and gone. The future is not yet. Here we are in the present. It’s really all we ever have. Yet so many peo­ple squan­der the present by lament­ing over the past, rem­i­nis­ing about the glory days, wor­ry­ing about what’s going to […]

How does one cry­ing in the wilder­ness get heard today? By blog­ging and main­tain­ing a web­site? Being a voice of dis­sent, icon­o­clas­tic views and alter­na­tive real­i­ties does not make one real pop­u­lar. Does one sell out, con­form and try to fit in or live with integrity? At this point in my life, I think it’s […]