Holistic Life

“Laughter is carbonated holiness.” ~Anne Lamott

I thought about going to services this morning; I even looked up which minister was speaking at the church I’ve been thinking about checking out.

Instead I ended up neck deep in a bubble bath, candles flickering, soft music playing, laughing SO hard that the bath water threatened to jump the [...]

“No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.” ~ Barbara De Angelis

From the time I was 16 years old, I felt like I had a directional signal in my head leading [...]

“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.” ~ Ingrid Bergman

I just got back from seeing Avatar, James Cameron’s record and technologically groundbreaking film…

And I loved it, every single moment!

This is a [...]

“Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don’t have to do anything else. We don’t have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.” ~ Margaret J. Wheatley

Sometimes there aren’t any answers… no solutions [...]

“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.” ~ Thomas Stephen Szasz

A couple of weeks ago, as HHP’s Movie of the Month, we watched Conversations with God, the 2006 movie based on the best-selling books written (or [...]

“Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.” ~ St. Thomas Aquinas

“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does [...]

“We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.” ~ Samuel Smiles

I have a thing about drum music – always have.  Which is kind of funny because I’ve never [...]

“It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.” ~ Albert Einstein

I have a confession to make… I have taken to ducking in and out of the Whole Foods across the street from the office, scurrying in and out with my [...]

“Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.” ~ Samuel Johnson

I was at home one day when my best friend from Grad school called me.

“I’m having the most FANTASTIC day!” she said to me.

I got excited; I imagined all kinds of fabulous things [...]

“Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political & moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression & violence without resorting to oppression & violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression & retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.” ~ Martin Luther [...]