For the past 20 years, Tony and I have been publishing the Holistic Networker. It has been quite a journey. When we began, most people did not even know what the word “holistic” meant. Nor did they know about energy and sound healing, craniosacral, lymphatic drainage, tai chi, homeopathy, reflexology and so many other forms …
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Merrily Smith Earns Her Wings: 1930-2012
On Thanksgiving Day one of our dearest earthbound angels was called home. I knew Merrily for over 20 years. She worked tirelessly to make the world a better place. Merrily, had a blind spot for the word, “impossible”—it simply was not in her vocabulary. Marvelous, fabulous, and miraculous, of course, were at the tip of …
A Mayan Perspective: A View from Outside the Storm
The sky is falling. Unemployment. Assassinations. West Nile. Tsunami. Katrina. The Great Recession. We are in the middle of a Great Storm. Entire industries, cities, and even nations are swept up in its wake. This storm is so violent, so inclusive that we have not even dared to name her. The Mystics and the Maya …
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A New Calendar, A New Daily Planner
On September 10, 2001 I happened to read Cynthia Novak’s Daily Astrological Message. She wrote that if ever there was a week for a terrorist or some other type of cowardly attack, then astrologically, this was the week. I was rather astonished by these words. I remember it was a peaceful and beautiful September day, …
Lean Into Life
Do you feel like the pace of life has accelerated beyond your comfort zone? Has your email inbox grown to Biblical proportions? You’re not alone. Even executives running the very companies that fuel this internet revolution report that they have trouble keeping up. How can you manage the ever-increasing tempo of change? You really do …
Being More Than Our Circumstances
I recently read about an extraordinary, 24-year-old woman named Aimee Copeland. She had cut her leg when she fell off a friends’ zip line into the water on May 1st. Initially she required 22 surgical staples and seemed to be all right. However, on May 4th, she was diagnosed with necrotizing fascitis, which is an …
Being Present
Aron Schoenfeld recently interviewed me for his blog “Do It In Person” (doitinperson.com). Aron wanted to learn about my WordPress Meetup group which is one of the largest blogging Meetups in the world with over 1200 members. The internet makes distance learning so easy, so why do 80+ members of the WordPress Meetup come out …
Being There
You can really know about a person by how they treat others in their time of need. Do they push and shove? Are they absent and unavailable? Or do they hold out a helping hand and offer support until that person is able to stand on their own again? A few months ago my mother …
Twenty Years
Twenty years ago the internet was a small collection of goverment and educational computers, a place for scientists to communicate. Today, you can access the internet and 3 billion other connected beings with a device that fits in your pocket. Twenty years ago your car had an AM/FM radio, and a fancy cassette player. Today, …
Count Your Blessings
Recently my mother was attending a show. They called a woman in the audience to come on stage as it was her 95th birthday. She excitedly got up from her chair and with surprising agility climbed the steps. They then began to play her favorite song. With a lot of enthusiasm, she sashayed across the …