It keeps on happening Universe did it again! Today, I thought Lou Ann and I were just going to have lunch with three other friends. We met Ranjita, Gloria and Devin at the Indian Gardens. Then we went to Ranjita’s house, gathered in a circle, and through her leadership, began to support each other in…
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Ye Olde Sayings Lou Ann loves to have her back scratched. Last night after doing that for her, I thought of the saying “I’ll scratch your back if you will scratch mine.” It is nearly impossible to scratch one’s own back. So when we make the agreement to exchange back scratches, we are doing something…
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Fathers My dad was addicted to alcohol before I was born. When he was sober, he was a decent man. He was in so much emotional pain, he was hardly ever sober. He drank himself to an early death. Here is the irony. When I was a teenager and I was asked what I wanted…
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Illuminate Members of the core team of the Illuminate Film Festival had an all day final meeting today for this year. The festival was a success for the fifth year in a row. Each time, we start in the early fall and begin searching for conscious cinema to share in the summer festival of the…
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A Season of Love One year ago today, I started this blog. That was 525, 600 minutes ago, as the wonderful song from the Broadway musical Rent exclaims! For me it has been a season of love. I have had the honor and privilege to share with all of you the things of my heart. …
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The Launch Six of us gathered at our home tonight and brainstormed about the possibility of creating the Positive Place Talk Show. We were led by Nick Conedera the director of the inspiring Miracle Morning movie. He showed us a system called Appreciate Inquiry. It has four phases or elements. They are discovery, dream, design…
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We were born to love We are all so blessed to have so much information at our fingertips on how to live a loving, trans formative life. I have been reading Tom Shadyac’s book Life’s Operating Manual lately. He shares that Charles Darwin used the term survival of the fittest twice in The Descent of…
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Love is in the heart of the observer There is an old saying that “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Margaret Wolfe Hungerford is said to have first coined the phrase. This is to say, what we see , feel or think, is our personal perspective. Somehow, we humans have come to an…
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Phone Home Thirty six years ago E.T. was released today. It was a transcendent film for many of us. So many films from the 1977 Star Wars The Lost Hope, to Close Encounters of the Third Kind( November 16, 1977) and Raiders of the Lost Ark ( June 12, 1981) stimulated our imaginations. Even Superman…
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The Show Must Go On! I had the privilege to be in the Illuminate film lab with a man named Larry Rosenberg. He is a delightful, articulate, entertaining and loving being. He has a gift of making up songs in the moment about whatever we might be saying. He is two years younger than me…
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