I was bullied as a kid. It wasn't nice and it wasn't kind and it didn't make me a tougher, stronger, thicker-skinned man. It actually made me want to hurt myself, it made me feel unwanted, unworthy and powerless. I was told "that's what other boys do, it's in their nature". I was told to buck up and grow a thicker skin and stick up for myself... I'm a man, this is what men are supposed to do... be strong. I had loving people in my life, some of my family, older friends and ad

The feeling of your own bed, your smell of the air, the sounds floating around you, the people that you’ve come to love and the time spent together that nurtures your soul.. These are the attributes of what it feels like coming home from a long journey, or a few long journeys. Taking doing-less on the road - or shall I say on the high-seas - sailing to visit the azure waters of the Bermuda Triangle, wandering the vastness of the New York landscape, to floating in warm rain po

Smiles, breathing, eating, tasting, sounds, sensations, memories, beautiful vistas... being warm. These are just a few things that I am honing in on what I am grateful for today. But not just today, I try to wake-up every day and offer a little meditation of gratitude to set the day on a wave of optimism and excitement. Why just settle on one day or one weekend a year, Thanksgiving, to be thankful. I have found that on the days that I don’t offer a meditation of thankfulness,

A touch, a breath of a whisper, the vibration of thoughts floating across gaps of physical contact. The feeling that is very present right now is love. A shift of consciousness has begun and it feels so right. From viewing nature and all of it’s varied forms... storms, droughts, floods, winds. To human interactions... new connections, old bonds broken, marriages of families, leaving the physical form, being renewed in the birth of new bodies. Witnessing these events is like w