Doren analyzes Léon: The Professional for life lessons, and shares an Active Meditation Guide to help calm a traumatized nervous system. Inspiring this Active Meditation is a film by creator and director, Luc Besson, Léon: The Professional. Best viewed as the extended cut, this 1994 crime thriller focuses on the…

In response to Dancing Elephants Photography January Prompt — Elephants The above photograph features a pink elephant doorstop, and a 5-ribbon metallic sphere. There are many observations we can make about this composition, especially when we think about the principles of design. An important principle to consider in 2-D compositions like photography, is movement. This photo’s composition has vertical movement…

Where Doren weaves the 3 types of revelation (divine, special, and general revelation) with thoughts of MLK Jr., the dream, and recollections of school in 1970s Oakland. Martin Luther King Jr. — A Voice of Revelation Revelation is about dispelling ignorance, revealing what is hidden. In religious revelation, the source of this revealing action or message is quite important…

In which Doren discusses trauma recovery mingled with the Japanese philosophy & art of kintsugi (repairing with gold). Bonus Content: 3 kintsugi inspired Golden Activities for body, mind, and spirit Imperfect In the Japanese art and philosophy of kintsugi — repairing with gold — there is first something that has broken…

After Winning International Recognition for “Glitter Patterns” — It’s a post-pandemic Open Mic Night at Tía Chuchas Bookstore and Centro Cultural, Los Angeles. I’m in California on business and I want to hit the old neighborhood, see some of my poetry kin, and shake the house with a great performance. I open my computer, read my poems, looking…

A hard knock true tale about when Doren was hit by a car (age 14), and how an esteemed yogi taught her what the car couldn’t! Accompanied by 5 Meditation Suggestions to help you think about your toes. If You Dance Like an Elephant, Be an Elephant. When I was…

When I was 11 years old, I received a “meditation” book from my father. It was a thinner than thin-mint pocket book, containing 5 exercises. One exercise required doing a simple and unimportant act at the same time each day for 30 days. A suggested iteration was to move a…

The power of gratitude is well known as a human social interaction, as a mindfulness practice, and as a form of spiritual and religious expression. What is gratitude shazam-itude? …

Doren writes about how grief equals change, and shares a Meditation Guide to help us mourn one breath at a time. There are many stages of grief. Give them a number. Say it’s a process, a cycle, a passage. And yes, time does… something. Things change. Change being the operative…