We’ve been lied to and manipulated. If we are going to separate from that manipulation, we’ll need to confront brutal honesty. In order to witness honesty, our egos and opinions will have to be set aside. At least for the purposes of this conversation. Here’s a few steps to help…

This comes from my heart. If it helps you, please pass it on. We need each other now more than we ever have. I want to talk about fear, how it has gripped us while we were looking elsewhere and wreaked unacknowledged damage on our hearts and in our families…

Herd, is, by definition: …a typically large group of animals of one kind kept together under human control — a herd of cattle …a congregation of gregarious* wild animals *tending to associate with others of one’s kind : SOCIAL …a herd is a social group of certain animals of the…

Within the last two weeks or so, my eyes are not seeing things with the same clarity with which they once did. It’s been a sudden shift, alarming even. Without warning and overnight, things are not clear. Some friends are reporting that the same is true for them. How about…

Handcuffs chain together two shackles; fear and control. They are interchangeable and bound. We stand at a moment of self-definition. We will not be shackled, yet until and unless we see our chains, we will not stand without them. Clarity of vision is called for. There is no eye test…

First and most important; I love you with all that I have. As we separately peer into what looks diametrically opposed, let’s review what we do agree on. Our connection matters. The care and feeding of relationship require contact and time and listening and compassion and effort. Freedom. The environment…

We’ve made it to election day in the USA. We are up to the counting part. Here’s why I voted the way I did. In 2016 I did not vote for either major party, feeling that the choices in either of those camps were either criminal or a joke. In…

“Corona-Daze” — A Pandemic’s Journal.17 & End. So, I want to write about the virus one more time, and this blog will end once I do. Not that the virus has been eradicated, but rather that any helpful input has. …

When the last journal entry was published, on September 30th, it was prior to the US President being diagnosed with the virus and subsequently hospitalized. That was 7 days ago. He’s now back at the White House and reporting that he feels better than he has in 20 years. He…