The Ageless Experiment

Don’t you long for the wise ones to reenter the room. I was always taught to seek out the wise ones. The ones who had grace, elegance, a calm decency. These traits did not make them weak. It made them more powerful than any noise that was trying to fill up the space. If you […]

We are supposed to make ourselves and each other feel safe. We can’t change how others think or act but that doesn’t mean that we can’t make ourselves and others feel safe when they are in our presence. All we can do is think of our space as a safe harbor. A spot where sanity […]

There is this bank account. The peculiar thing about it is that you can only make withdrawals . No deposits are allowed. The other peculiar thing about it is that you don’t know how much is it in. It could be a day or a week or months or years left in it. The other […]

Each time of the year we are given the opportunity to recalibrate the meaning of our time here. As the years spin by we finally realize that we can lighten up, relax, smile and see that we are on a spinning rock in an ever expanding universe. Recognizing this truth there is no reason to […]

Every once in awhile you meet an elegant person. Not often in these days. But when you do you know that you have received a gift. The gift of a different time, a different place. A sweet quiet cherished moment. A peace is felt in your very soul. Be the elegant one today

There was a time when elegance and grace and gratitude were not foreign distant words but rather a way of living each new day. How about this holiday season we rediscover these words, attitudes lifestyles and make kindness and the light touch the way to show true power and strength. Happy Thanksgiving to you and […]

You can hear the whisper in the quiet moments of the night. Maybe after a long tough day you can hear the whisper. I know I have. Sometimes it is nonstop and some moments it is just a brief breeze of thought that rushes by your side. Whenever I hear the whisper I get both […]

Sometimes it feels like we are walking on a thin sheet of ice. It is an ice field covering a very deep body of water. We are frozen in place and we wonder how we got there. What to do? We can stay frozen there. We need to have faith, courage and determination to slowly […]

There was a time when civil conversation and noble intentions were expected and the norm. People shared their views and listened to each other and considered a different way to go. It was a gentler time. A time of compassion and empathy. Everyone understood that we rise or fail together. Maybe if each of us […]

I remember when I was a little boy I was told a story about a world that existed in one drop of rain. The lives, loves , hopes, dreams and all of life’s highs and lows were all existing in that one rain drop. All the moments of joy and sadness were taking place in […]