If you need a break from election-mania, here's something different. (I voted Saturday!) I watched the video below about a scientist, Nan Hauser, who was saved by a humpback whale. Her story is not unique. If you search the Internet, as I did, you can find loads of...

  The poet David Whyte has offered a series of soul-nourishing talks during the pandemic. After the most recent, he offered a question we could use as part of our practices: "What do you like to do where the doing itself, no matter how awkwardly done, is its own...

This week was struck by the first line from Wicked Game, Chris Issak's iconic mega-hit from the early 90s. "The world was on fire and no one could save me but you." Last week, the word fire caught my attention as the West Coast burned and many us huddled indoors,...

Here on the U.S. West Coast, we've had a tough week. Fires raging, and the whole coast socked in smoke. With hazardous air quality outside, my life has gone from stay-at-home to stay-inside-the-home. Even some favorite strategies for de-stressing, like long walks in...

  I've been in rich conversations recently about how life has been changed by the pandemic. The question, "How am I doing?" is almost impossible to answer. Much of the time, I feel so radically alive, and creative, gobsmacked by wonder walking around the farm and...