Sometimes teachers have a little fun at a students expense. It is part of the design to keep a person on edge and to keep things real and...

Considering conflict. Is it necessary? Is it healthy? So why can't we all just "get along"? Perhaps we are not supposed to. At least,...

There are various degrees of caring about the big questions in life. Most people...many, I suspect, could care less if there is anything...

We never seem to know enough. It often seems we live in a constantly frustrating need-to-know basis. Given the weight of sorrow we must...

I'm not one to want to turn back the clocks on human behavior but sometimes certain things can get lost in the fray of everyday living...

This poem set me to thinking about what Hafiz is referring to as "the most common man" in terms of my country (The United States). This...

There are certain events in one's life that force our hands. If we are lucky they open to applaud, they respond to create or they reach...

The first love released is a projection of self love. It is reenacted ad infinitum throughout one's life as it was initiated by the first...

I've long ago let go of the belief that everything is random in the universe and reality is a done deal. It just never held true for me...

A healthy, human being is curious and curiosity is rarely within the confines of the familiar. There must be some sass and kick ass...

We are so immersed in the miracle of life that we can barely recognize meeting our own being when we see and feel it. We are in God's...

Change. A glimpse of the inconceivable. How many things in our everyday reality do we assume are never going to be altered in any way?...

Love can take on many guises and roles in human lives. It can be a romance or a parent's care; it can be a heightened sense of patriotism...

Overthinking. Just about everyone I know, including myself is guilty of this. Hafiz warns of this hazard when igniting the creative...

I grew up with low self esteem as did many young women of my age born in the 50's. We were sucked up into a post war mindset that...

There comes a holy time in our lives when we learn the truth of ourselves. It is not usually a fun time because we are born to fuck...

...every heart is at first an apprentice that slaves beneath the city of light... As humans, we do not spring forth into our lives fully...

We are watching our dream world come into being. We are on a long road and it is rife with roadside attractions of grief featuring...

A big part of being human seems to involve trying to remember who we are. There is a lot of fumbling and tripping involved in the...

I am not a religious woman, yet as I've aged I've surrendered to an existence of the spiritual that is of me while beyond me. Hafiz'...