Fearing our own peace of heart
When the male aspect of our consciousness detaches from the female aspect of our consciousness, it moves us into a state of anticipation. That is the state in which most...
Coming Home to the Body
Wherever we look, the need to birth a new humanity is clear. Our way of living has created species extinction, climate imbalance, toxins in our food, air and water, endless...
Burn Baby, Burn
On Monday January 3rd, Neil Reynolds urged readers of his Globe and Mail column to “Go forth, multiply and fill the provinces”. He was refuting the claim by biological anthropologist...
The World’s Magic
A moment that I’d anticipated and imagined and fantasized about for ten years finally strolled into my life on Saturday evening. I’d arrived in Chicago to participate in Andrew Harvey’s...
Protesting Violence
I read an article by Marcus Gee in the Globe and Mail today (Why some G20 protesters won’t condemn violence). The piece looked at a number of groups protesting the...
The G20
“Meetings of nations are always better than not having meetings of nations. I think, however, they should have their meetings on that island of floating plastic in the Pacific. They...
The dust has settled
The book is finished. I’m bewildered, amazed, spent, ecstatic and grateful beyond speaking. After a decade working at it – tracing out miles of pencil lead over countless sheets of...
Winemaking
Okay, so I’ve been a bit remiss on the old blog-making front. It hasn’t yet been a year since I last checked in – but it would be if I...
The Subtle Workout
To set the stage: for the past six years I’ve been obsessed (more like ‘possessed’, according to my long-suffering family) with the writing of a book, and am only just...