I come from a line of unshakable Christians and preachers, and even now, nearly all of my relatives—immediate and distant—follow that genetic path without question… Ministry is in my blood. But it has always been very clear to me I have different eyes. I have the sort of eyes one receives on a mountaintop, after …
Category: present life
Mother Sorrow, Natal Manifesto
My heart has been broken, And those pieces have been broken, And the pieces of those pieces have been broken. And as my heart has been divided, And had the divided divided, I realize With ever-sharpening clarity I am Only A mirror, A sentient reflection of the Whole which lies broken around me. I am …
O Manjushri
Homage to Venerable Guru Protector Manjushri! At your Heart you hold a Dharma text, showing that you see all ultimate and conventional truths with a wisdom that has dispelled the clouds of obstructions and radiates like the sun. With a melodious speech endowed with sixty qualities, you love like your only child all migrators in …
Sweating Bullets
I’m dying. Again. I do it every so often, you know. And so I suppose it is only fitting that in this my numerological 9 year—which is completion, wrapping up another full cycle—I find myself dying again. And it feels good. We collect so many energies and dust mites as we go through life, and …
Firsthand Darkness — My 2013 Worldstory
WITH THE RELEASE OF the first annual Starfield Press WORLDSTORY 2013 Treasury—a various author compilation sharing the experiences of growth and change 2013 brought others all around the planet—I decided to go ahead and share my chapter contribution from this project here as well. It takes a lot of reflection, introspection, and meditation to review …
Bengali Tea-Boys
*sigh* Those who give us a hard time, who are difficult to be around or who constantly blow our cover, are the very ones who show us where we we’re stuck. The great meditation master Atisha always traveled with his belligerent Bengali tea-boy because it kept him honest. Without his ill-tempered servant to test him, …
Official Devastation
It is generally considered that people are inherently good, that given the choices, ultimately the good, humane, kind, and loving choice will always be made. The holidays try with all their might to convince us of this, painting warm and fuzzy pictures of the way things should be… but after the year I’ve experienced and …
Hear me on Conscious|Cool|Chic Radio!
I will be the special guest on today’s episode of Conscious | Cool | Chic with the lovely Molly McCord! We will be talking about my newest book, Lightworker: A Call to Authenticity, and discussing just what it means to be a Lightworker in this day and age. We will also talk about my Starfield …
Up with the Birds
The birds they sang, At break of day: “Start again,” I hear them say. It’s so hard to just walk away… The birds they sang, All a choir: “Start again, a little higher…” It’s a spark in a sea of grey. The sky is blue— Dream that lie, ’til it’s true… Then taking back the …