Host of the Dandelion Doorways Podcast: focusing on mindful living, exploring practices such as meditation and Reiki, and how simple shifts in perspective can allow us to experience a deeper connection and more blissful life.
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Inner Space
My inner space is almost constantly pondering. I can’t help it. The phrase would be, “I can’t turn off my brain.” But is it my brain that won’t turn off? Hence my last trip down the rabbit hole of my inner space. Modern philosophy teaches that consciousness resides in the brain along with memory and…
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Patty’s GoFundMe
Hello friends and fellow wordsmiths. Below is an excerpt from my dear friend’s GoFundMe page. I know these are difficult times financially for everyone but I kindly ask for you help. Can you spare $5? The cost of an average specialty coffee to help a fellow human through a very difficult time? Patty isn’t asking…
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Free
I am most content in Nature, be it mountains or fields; in these places, I have a sense of connection, of suchness that eludes me in trappings of concrete and steel. When I can spend even brief moments in the bounty of the earth, I am reborn, refreshed, and deeply content. I recently stumbled across…
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Non-dual
In stillness, the truth slowly revels itself. We begin to understand the preciseness of the Universe. Out of chaos arises beautiful order; a magical dance of dark/light, pleasure/pain, bliss/suffering, life and death; anew in each eternal moment.𝘕𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦
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Fool(ish) Musings
Today we will take some time to think about “the fool’s” journey through life. This theme is represented in literature with works such as “the Epic of Gilgamesh” and ”Alice in Wonderland,” among many others. Joseph Campbell, an American writer and professor, described it as the archetypal hero story.These themes are prevalent in our lives…
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Sidewalk in the sun
I let the baggage drop today. It was getting too heavy, the older I get the more it weighs.So I let it go. I left it on a sidewalk in the sun.It was holey and worn with tatters and frays and no longer suited me. I don’t even remember everything I was carrying around anymore.…