

Eyes of the World
This is one of the lyrics of one of my favorite Grateful Dead songs, Eyes of the World. I have this picture as my screen saver for a multitude of reasons. We are the eyes of the world and what we see is a projection of who and what we are. This goes back to the shadows on Plato's cave. It beckons the line...." I turned around and it was me." We are what we see, in fact at some level I believe we create our lives so we can deal with the parts of us that we can't see unless


Survivor Guilt.....Healing the Planet
There was a certain group of people, which I was one of, that when asked "How did you do in the storm?".... the answer was " we did OK, we stayed dry and no flooding." Unfortunately, a lot of the people I knew and talked to could not say this..... so I had this strange feeling of guilt come over me as if I would be better if everything I had was lost in the storm......crazy thinking....yet to me that was survivor guilt. What made it worse for me was that we were homebound for


Ready or not, here comes change....
In all my studies of creativity, I have found one fact that rings true every time..... change is hard for everyone. I was always told the creative individuals loved change, always wanted to shift things around, and were always flexible.....not true. Change is only easy if I am the one wanting change and I can see a real benefit from the change. Then I go around wondering why change is so hard for everyone UNTIL I am told that I have to change and I cannot see a benefit....t