Every tea house needs live music now and then, yes?  So here's a virtual connection to the music of a talented singer/songwriter.  I've known about Beth Patterson, the Celtic/Cajun singer/songwriter since I first got on the internet in 1995 and  in 1997 did a search on my own name, when someone told me that an article about an ...

Stephen Harrod Buehner is one of my honored teachers.  This article coalesces much of what he teaches about how our heart as an organ of perception is what can lead us home, if we let it. 

If you don't know Eva Cassidy...here's one of her favorites.  I heard her voice on NPR about 15 years ago, not too long after she died, in her early 30's of ovarian cancer.  She sang her heart out up until the very end...and we can feel it in each of the too few recordings she left. I found this YouTube on Karen Crone's website 'my ...

Part 1: The call comes from 'Bougainvillea' (i.e. Katrina) asking me to come help her die. Katrina and I have been friends for over 20 years.  Note: In the late 1990's Katrina took on the nickname from a tropical plant I had carted to Colorado from Florida--a bougainvillea that I couldn't seem to kill--although I left it outside to freeze, ...

Click here for Vincent Van Gogh's timeless art put to Don McLean's equally timeless music.  Have your speakers on.  Wonderful meditation on a great soul--who is, of course, part of our collective soulfulness.   Don McLean wrote Vincent in 1971 after reading a book about the life of artist Vincent Van Gogh. In the 1970s, the Van Gogh museum in ...