A poem — I saw just now again the garden at dusk, beyond the open glass doors. I saw the white narcissus and star lilies in the moonlight, luminous and perfect. I was supposed to be somewhere else, but I stayed, remembering. For I had been here before and forgotten how everything mattered. How the radiance…

This is a hard one. But Eleanor Roosevelt knew what she was talking about. The former First Lady ranked in the top nine most widely admired people of the twentieth century. Her legacy, one among many, was to tell us “The choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.” Yet…

Be the flame in a dark room — Is your presence here and now in the world a benefit to you and that world? Are you good enough? Do you deserve the good things of life? Does what you do day-to-day matter? Do you count in the Great Scroll of Being? …

And its extraordinary parallels to 1912 — A thrilling and haunting immersion into everything not of this world… So did I feel, when a long time ago I watched an episode of ONE STEP BEYOND, a television show that was the first of its kind, giving highly detailed reenactments of true stories from the psychic and paranormal…

Their stories can damage your heart and soul — you must activate discernment — I view the news for five minutes a day. The only stories I open to read for longer are positive ones. These are stories that uplift my thoughts and outlook. That doesn’t mean I have a vested interest in some Pollyanna fount of information. It means I welcome reading about…

#1 —Never give your own power away — Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. ~ Three Witches of Macbeth Some people live in a toxic state of mind as their default way of seeing the world. They are not easily able to value another, because they have ceased to value themselves, and so project…

You always have the right to be here and to soar and to thrive. — The ego is intended to help us navigate the confines and limitations of physical reality — without it we would not survive in human terms. What it cannot do is sustain us at all other levels of our being. Its chatter is usually negative, its critical outlook is incessant, its…

A fantasy tale— Every good sorceress must take an inner journey — Some spells must not be broken. Darga said this to me before she left us in Tenaris, before she transformed, or whatever it was she decided to do. I had no idea what she meant, having never managed to complete a spell in my life. I begged her to tell…

Thus, the world does its best to keep women silent — Wise woman n. 1. A woman who is venerated for experience, judgment, and wisdom. 2. A woman who practices traditional arts or folkways such as herbal medicine, midwifery, or divination. Reading a few days ago of the poisonings in Iran, the death of protestors, the deep hatred of women by various groups…