Short Stories

The Need for Suffering

Sometimes a person needs a period of intense suffering to obtain clarity, focus and the proper understanding. In this way it is a gift, one that gives music its harmony and the dance of love […]

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Why I Write – Honestly

Writing for me is therapeutic.  It has also been one of the purest and most honest methods by which I communicate.  It is impossible for me to be dishonest when I write, and it is impossible […]

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The Parable of the Moving Ball

So when someone says to me “you are wrong, the ball is moving” while unfriending me on Facebook because of what I see (or how I describe what I see), I can simply say “yeah, I saw that once too and this is what I saw once I stepped onto the train.”

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Can Inflexible, Old Muscle Heads be Yoga Teachers?

My question to whomever will answer is “can inflexible, old muscle heads be yoga teachers?”

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When am I no longer an “aspiring” writer?

The feedback I am getting has been tremendous. Emails, Tweets, posts, messages, texts and whispers in my ear all tell me “you should be a writer!” The only problem is that I have absolutely NO idea how to go about being a writer. Or at least feed my family while doing it.

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Transcending Differences Through Unconditional Love

The path we walk is divided by a fork, and we choose which path to take. One one side is the path of ideas.  On this path, we choose to be known and to know […]

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The Dream of a Butterfly

My friend Terry Hodgkinson sent me this through Facebook.  It was certainly worthy of sharing. Dream of a butterfly The great Taoist master Chuang Tzu once dreamt that he was a butterfly fluttering here and […]

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