In the mornings during my dark night, I read Jamie’s Dancing the Dream and decided to use her words as my guide. Jamie lays out seven paths of initiation inside of spiritual transformation coming from her native traditions of the Southern Seers. In the first path she lays out the importance of service to others. […]
Month: July 2017
A Disease Inside Me
I was at a birthday gathering with about 10 white guys in their 40’s, 50’s and me at 60! All successful guys and some 1%ers. As we drink a beer, smoke a cigar, talk fantasy football and generally enjoy each other’s company one guy starts in with some racial jokes. . . here’s how it […]
Jamie, James, and My Dark Nights
Some, and maybe even all, encounters are providential. They are somehow meant to happen, I think. Given that I had no idea who Jamie was, let alone how she might help me, and also given that when I walked into the mega-bookstore with hundreds of books about spirituality I could have picked any book and […]
Depression and an unexpected journey
Back to the depression that I was so feeling in that chair that night that I don’t want to talk about. So, there I am thinking about my life overwhelmed with a sense of hopelessness and using Google to try to name what is happening to me and knowing I needed some help here I […]
The Suffering of Men
I am exhausted and I try to go back to bed and back to sleep and my life won’t let me. damn it – this is really starting to piss me off. How long am I going to let this go on? And I know I am letting it go on, me, it is me. […]
4th of July
OK it is the 4th of July, one of my favorite holidays. Why? Well, because there are parades and fireworks and barbeques and games and . . . what’s not to like about that? And on this day we celebrate becoming a country, our independence from the British and all that. Pretty cool stuff. And […]
what i choose to see 