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Californication, or things I say to clients
“Sarah Nevin once told me I could ask to see my guardian angels in dreams. I asked and I’ve never had worse nightmares in my life. ‘Ask them not to scare you,’ she says. Since then they’ve always shown up to deliver messages in disguises that make me laugh – because my GAs are smart […]
Better than sunshine
I may be the only person I know who didn’t enjoy “Little Miss Sunshine.” The same movie studio produced a new film this summer, “The Way Way Back.” Naturally the film is being compared to LMS, but I like the characters in WWB much better. In LMS every character had some kind of goofy personality […]
Goodbye, Tony
“This psychiatry shit. Apparently what you’re feelin’ is not what you’re feelin’ and what you’re not feelin’ is your real agenda.” – Tony Soprano. RIP I feel that I owe a small debt to the Sopranos for career marketing, because a common question strangers ask each other is, “What do you do?” When I respond, […]
Spirals
Each time you meet an old emotional pattern with presence, your awakening to truth can deepen. There’s less identification with the self in the story and more ability to rest in the awareness that is witnessing what’s happening. You become more able to abide in compassion, to remember and trust your true home. Rather than […]
Two Views of Notre Dame
In 1914 Henri Matisse had a Paris studio overlooking Notre Dame cathedral. He painted the scene above left from his window view. Later in the year he painted the blue painting to the right. Can you tell they are both paintings of the same scene? If you look carefully you can see the two bell […]
Why Sadness?
Friday night I saw Zero Dark Thirty. Warning: spoiler alert–I am going to talk about end the film. The last scene is Maya boarding an empty hanger plane as the only passenger—the pilot even comments that she must be an important person because she has the whole plane to herself. He then asks her where […]
thoughts . feelings 