Seeking Authentic Voice

What if the basic element of life all life, human life and plant life animal life and life beyond this planet what if the basic element of all life is love, emanating through our heart pulsing out into the universe affecting every thing and every one? Love. What if the basic nature of humankind is love? Not greed. Not arrogance.  Not superiority, not aggression, Love.  What if we have it wrong, to think that more is better, that bigger is better, that more and bigger means powerful?  What if that is not really true? Because nothing in nature  ever takes more  than it needs  but when it does,  it dies.  Cancer.  Cancer takes more than it needs. Cancer is a disease that can kill because it has no boundaries, no limits takes more than it needs.  And so it is when humans do that,  take more and more and let others suffer and have less,  then human kind fai...

Photo by   Mary Mathis I haven’t run on my treadmill for months, longer than I can remember. But I ran for an hour yesterday morning. I ran because it is one way that I can process all the pent up anxiety that I feel inside. Usually after I run for an hour I feel better, the endorphins kick in and I feel more myself. But this time it did not work. The thick layer of anxiety mixed with despair was stronger than any endorphin I could produce. I live in a kind of chronic fog of depression. It is not clinical depression, not caused by some chemical imbalance. No, this depression is situational, and it’s cumulative and directly correlates to what is going on the world around me. I don’t know how many of you are living in a similar state of chronic anxiety and depression, triggered by the state of our country and our world, and existing regardless of which political polarity one may lean toward.  It’s a tough time to be a man or a woman and even difficult to live as a...