cultivate synthetic happiness

The Wrong Toolbox

Fair warning: this is going to be one of those posts where I bring up a need, something that’s missing from the bulk of personal development blogs. In a nutshell, it’s our inability to cultivate synthetic happiness. I’ll…

A Little Dream of Me

Waking Dreams are visions of personal empowerment, joy, peace, passion, creation, seduction and delight. They are idealized images of self, personal aspirations, flights of fancy, hidden desires made manifest, explorations of the taboo.

These are the Dreamers.
These…

why procrastinate joy?

Gotta Have a Reeses

If there’s one thing I miss in the world of advertising, it’s the good old Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup commercials. They would create absurdly complex scenarios whereby someone’s chocolate would end up in someone else’s peanut…

On Coming Back and Coming Out

Hi! It’s been a while. My Middle Daughter, sitting across from me here at the coffee shop, tells me it’s Wednesday, so we’ll put away the “Building Practice vs. Skills” post (sounds like a Monday kind of thing, to me) and instead talk about first, why I’m writing this at all…

kisses should be conversations, and vice versa

The Lexicon of Lips

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” — Ingrid Bergman

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to further…

living the life you wish

Freelancer’s Fantasy

Paging through Fast Company Magazine, years ago, trying to answer the gnawing question: “Gray, why aren’t your living the life you wish?” There is an ad for a resort in Northern England. Not the tropical kind of getaway…

It’s ALL Practice

So, we’re almost a week into the new year; how are those new plans and schemes and hopes and dreams workin’ out for you?

Writers Write

Personally, I’m not doing too bad. The book on Opening Space is at about 14,000 words, and I’ve…

LIFE’s LITTLE WARNING LABELS 1: BEWARE OF WHAT YOU SEEK

As I mentioned last week, I got to have some really amazing discussions with some very smart people recently. One of them, a fellow relationship counselor/coach type who wishes to remain anonymous, said something that really…