I started climbing when I was thirteen years old. I am now sixty-three so this makes fifty years of climbing. I never imagined I would be still climbing. On several occasions, I thought I was through due to health events but I am still getting up routes. One thing I…

We cannot be fearless in the world, but we can develop a relationship with fear that invites us to show up with love when fear is part of our story. This showing up with love business can be hard to figure out. When someone seeks to cause you harm, love…

As I age, I am confronted with the big questions of life more vehemently than ever before. Perhaps, if I had chosen to live an unexamined life, I could have cruised effortlessly through life without much discomfort or confusion. …

WHAT IS JOY? I have come to know joy Not initially through my brain But through my heart. My heart, for example, has a special sonar for love. My brain then catches up to what my heart finds. The heart laughs, the brain sheepishly laughs too. When I was a…

Pema Chodron: We are transitioning every day…get into it. TRANSITIONING I find myself in transition every year and if I am being honest with myself, every day. Yes, every single day. I breathe in and breathe out and with each breath comes changes. Most often, subtle, barely perceptible changes. We…

Every now and then I take winter walks amongst the stars. Not human stars, but the kind of stars that twinkle in the night sky. Every now and then, my thoughts become clearer in this sharp crisp air where I can see my breath form real clouds directly from my…

Walking towards the end of the day I am deeply aware of how precious even a simple evening walk can be. I wonder for a brief moment, is there more to life than beginnings and endings? I laugh, largely because I don’t want anything to detract from this moment. The…