What would it mean to take the necessary steps to follow our deepest passion, regardless of what the steps are?

Join me as I share a story about someone who did exactly that.

This week I was given an immeasurable gift as someone was so fully present with me that something I struggled with for decades fell away and I came more fully into the present myself. Reflecting on that gift and the power of presence, I thought of others who have been present with me.

Join me as I share some reflections about Master Zhong, a Chinese practitioner of QiGong and a man of rare and undivided presence.

What does it mean to be home, especially when it comes to the immeasurable gift of knowing that we’re deeply at home within ourselves, that we are “at home in our own skin,” as the expression goes.

Join me as I share a memory about the meaning of home, and ask three questions about it.

My younger brother, Steve, was a courageous little guy. The ways he acted on his courage eventually led me to ponder the meanings of fearlessness and redefine it.

Join me as we look at what it really means to be naturally fearless, and what happens when we put our fearlessness into motion.

Watching a swift in flight, right before and immediately after a powerful summer storm, left no room for doubt that I had witnessed moments of pure ecstatic freedom. Join me as we consider the ecstasy of living as authentically as that aerobatic swift, right now.

What a curious experience it is to be human, being limited and limitless at the same time. This week I share some thoughts about living in true awareness on both sides of that seeming paradox.

Join me as we consider the Grace of real self-awareness and true presence with ourselves.

I love the way life can surprise us when we don't expect it, and how it can take us to a better place without any effort at all.

Join me as I introduce you to my friend, Rory MacLeod, a world class bagpiper and story teller. I'd like to share with you some of the gifts he gave me.

One of the ways we can envision our thought is to liken them to cars on a freeway, seeing them as the mental "traffic" that is constantly moving.

Considering that, I start to wonder what might happen if we were to treat our thinking in some of the same ways we treat the traffic on the road.

Join me as we consider some questions to challenge and change our thinking habits.

Because of the state of immediacy that small children live in, I often think that in many ways, they can be likened to little Zen masters. One of our main tasks as so-called "grown ups" (at least in the chronological sense) is to return to the states of wonder and presence.

Join me as we consider some ways of doing that.

Music has the ability to shape our lives and help us to be who and what we are. It doesn’t just “soothe the savage breast,” as the saying goes. It’s part of what makes us human.

Join me as we consider ways of using music intentionally to make our lives even better.