Don't Tell me Who I Am… Let Me Guess!

Accepting Our Weaknesses Frees Our Strengths.
We’ve all been around power hungry individuals who try to manipulate marriages and families or places of work with tyrannical control. Unfortunately this behavior gets rewarded by many of our governmental and religious institutions as well as most corporations. I refer to these personalities as suffering from “General Manager [...]

Do you remember the thrill of playing hide and seek as a small child trying to find the darkest place where you could hide; left alone only with the excitement of your imagination? Do you also remember that after a period of aloneness you got more and more restless until you finally left your hiding [...]

Here is what the German poet Rilke had to say:
Sometimes a man stands up after supper
and walks outdoors, and keeps on walking,
because of a church that stands somewhere in the East.
And his children say blessings on him as if he were dead.
And another man, who remains inside his own house,
Stays there, inside the dishes and [...]

Some of my younger friends have been trying to get me to go online with a website and blog for a long time. I’ve resisted because I was content with the readership and response to my column in the local paper  – Ojai and Ventura View-. I’m also a bit phobic and judgmental about modern [...]