Our Return to the U.S. after Three years in Brazil School photo from Lady of Lourdes Lady of Lourdes Elementary offered a new, yet...

My first communion in São Paulo, Brazil at age seven...I remember this moment when I stood so still with great focus in the courtyard of...

What came to me this morning… In this moment, what is happening? Sounds wafting toward you. Perhaps a scent is making itself known. ...

Instructions that came my way today as I sat quietly on my couch before plunging into the day’s events… Rest in the peace…Rest in the “I...

May 8, 2023 (First gardenia bloom in my garden…Appeared this morning!..) I was sitting quietly on my couch this morning and asked for...

Recently,  Thomas Merton was mentioned in a book I was reading.  He was a Trappist monk of some renowned in the last century.  Known as a...

(Me in front of The Pieta in St. Peter's Basilica.) Being back in D.C. felt good.  I have always enjoyed academia so going back to school...

Words that filtered through one day while in a half sleep state. I was living in Guadeloupe, the French West Indies, at the time with my...

Today I was speaking with a friend and the conversation elicited a memory that took place very early in this particular incarnation… I...

The divine cannot be found elsewhere. The divine cannot be found on a mountain top or a cave…under a massive Redwood or by a ...

According to the Hindu, Indian calendar, we are in the time of Pitru Prakash. It is a time when the ancestors are honored, our family...

We all look for this on some level, it seems. That sanctuary, that enclosed safety, which assuages and protects against times when life...

Trust your instincts, your intuition. Every step of the way, feel the earth rise up to meet you. Everything in every moment is a gift...

During my graduate school years several decades ago, I made the acquaintance of a fellow graduate student - actually, he might have been...

Sunrise from the Charles Bridge, Prague, Czech Republic I was reminded of the love of dancing, of just letting loose, by way of a...

This is a phrase that arose this morning as I was participating in a spiritual practice. It arose naturally…out of the blue, you could...

Thirty-one years ago today, I got married. It was a very warm day in upstate New York but thankfully, though we married outside in a...

In this day and age, we are seeing far too many examples of abuse of power in the spiritual world. Of course, one example is too much. ...

I was watching the fireworks over St. Augustine last night standing next to my older son. We were located on a rooftop of a local...