Whatever happens in 2022, the beauty of ordinary life is here to stay — When the hunger for your touch Rises from the hunger You whisper, you have loved enough Now let me be the lover ~ Leonard Cohen We are grieving what we have lost to the pandemic in the last two years and are considering new pandemic or post-pandemic possibilities awaiting us…

Step beyond the made-up complexity and artificial urgency of everything — In Ancient Greece, the word for “cook” and “priest” was the same — “mageiros” — sharing an etymological root with “magic.” The word appears again in the revealing 1814 anonymous Old English book, The School for Good Living, defining “magirist” as a “cook and an artist in good living.” …

Turn the dread that stops you into the joy that moves you. You are at the threshold… Present and lucid. One foot in the known, one in the unknown. There is no judgment. There is no force. There is no rush. Here, you are aware of your freedom to be…

Who is a leader and who is a follower is becoming less and less clear, and, frankly, less and less relevant. — My friend Nate battled cancer last year. After an abrupt diagnosis and surgery, he and his wife Christina moved to New York City and stayed with my family during his chemo and radiation treatment. Nate is a leader at Community Solutions, a national non-profit organization, untangling the knot of homelessness…

What I have learned from my first panic attack — When I’m lost, I need help. Whether as a child in a forest, as an adult in a maze of life’s promises and disappointments, or this very afternoon in the list of things not done. How about you? …

You can start with the courage of seeing differently. It is becoming abundantly clear: something has to change. Our communities and our entire species are about to make a turn here. How can we participate? I believe it will begin (and it is already beginning) with the practice of seeing…

You might have to fight for it. And you might have to take a mystic jailbreak too. — The moment I allow my heart to feel this void, to have this conversation, a miracle occurs Frank Schaeffer, a New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen fiction and nonfiction books, is not a normal person. I remember when he first stayed with us in our apartment…