This morning I tuned into my very favorite radio program “On Being”, which describes itself as a “spacious conversation” about “the big questions at the center of human life”. Host Krista Tippett interviewed Jon Kabat-Zinn about the role of mindfulness in our lives, which he defined as becoming intimate with the core of our own being. (In… [Continue reading]
Planetary Destabilization
What Will It Take?
My youngest recently graduated from elementary school. I live in a town in the Boston area called Newton, which is 144 miles away from Newtown in Connecticut. The difference between Newton and Newtown is one letter. I am in a state of shock, grief and rage over the slaughter of innocent children and teachers yesterday.… [Continue reading]
A Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste
” The most remarkable feature of this historical moment on Earth is not that we are on the way to destroying the world- we’ve actually been on the way for quite a while. It is that we are beginning to wake up, as from a millennia-long sleep, to a whole new relationship to our world… [Continue reading]
Denial 101
I just went to CVS to get D batteries for my flashlight, but they were all sold out. Bostonians are getting ready for Hurricane Sandy, and Governor Patrick has declared a state of emergency. It’s always a challenge to separate hype from reality, but Sandy has been described as potentially a “Frankenstorm”, because of the unusual… [Continue reading]
Planetary Destabilization and the Hummingbird Response
My final post of 2011 was entitled Be a Hummingbird in 2012. I would now like to revisit this important topic in light of current profound astrological events, particularly the recent first exact square between the planets Uranus and Pluto, which occurred in the context of Neptune’s fourteen year sojourn in Pisces. In this post… [Continue reading]
