One of the definitions of integrity is “the state of being whole.” I think that is a perfect definition for it.  I know personally that if I am out of integrity with myself or another person I feel as if I am disassociating from my soul and it is left outside my body...

Yep, mixed basketball and baseball analogy here. Whoddathunkit? Those who know me would say it fits.  I love both sports and I grew up watching The Great One, Roberto Clemente, play. My first inspirational hero in life, Clemente was a great humanitarian as well as a...

A Facebook friend of mine recently requested suggestions with regard to advice and topics to impart to a group of teens he was soon to be addressing.  Even though he himself is a watershed of information, he was asking for comments from others. Which got me thinking,...

Last week I addresses WHY we need to forgive.  But HOW do we this without being perceived as weak, or worse not only a push-over but a personal human doormat with a welcome sign on it inviting all to wipe their feet on us? To me, it depends on how we perceive the act...

Betrayal cuts to the core of the human existence. It’s great artistic food for fodder and oft the keynote topic for blues and country singers alike, not to mention poets. BB King wails “fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me” with extra emphasis on the...

Words define us. Words confine us. Words hold power. Who we are; who we become; whom others see us as; whom we see others as seeing us as is based upon words. You are what you eat so the health food industry tells us—true; but you are also who you and what others say...

Originally I intended to call this Are We Our Brother’s Keeper Or Is That Now Passé? Conceived it during the Holiday season. I like many passed the ubiquitous Salvation Army tin cans with the mostly unappreciative and despondent bell ringers manning said cans. And I...

There is so much discord with regard to our religious dogmas, or rather with regard to the fundamentalist factions of these various religious dogmas, bickering over God’s Will. This is not a new problem.  One merely needs to do a Google search to realize this-- The...

It is my humble opinion that offering a group healing—such as prayer for the planet or for an oppressed group of individuals—is quite different than when trying to perform an individual healing of a specific person. In the case of the latter, it is my humble opinion...

We, Americans tend to seek idols. We even have a reality show titled just that—American Idol. We seek them in form of what we perceive as gifted, blessed individuals; ones who possess the talent and skills we ourselves wish we had. We exalt them to nearly...

There's so much discussion about power nowadays. A higher power. Political power. Power of the people. Not to be left out are empowerment, power corrupts, powerful and powerless. But what is power? Why does one person feel powerful, another empowered and yet another...

We are spirits in quest of a physical experience. Which of course is contrary to our indoctrination—that we are physical beings in search of spirituality. We are weaned off the security of our mother’s wombs with the message that we are born into sin; or we have been...