Creative Resilience: The Art of Authenticity
[Exploring Life] We live in an age of instantaneous global communication. We also live in an age of mass somniloquence. Each of us secretly desires the intimacy and art of a deeper more compelling conversation that authentically explores the alluring mystery of being alive. When we engage in authentic conversation we explore and exchange our [...]
Spiritual Quality: Presence – The Embrace of Life
[Exploring Life] An external presence means that we share some kind of proximity with other living force in our world. This kind of presence may be visible or invisible, readily perceptible to our senses or it may be intuited as a felt-presence that does not present itself as everyday sensation. The invisible tends to confound [...]
Spiritual Journey: The Alchemist
[Exploring Life] Fatalism is an insipid belief that the general order of things, including the experiences we have in life, are predetermined and that we are powerless to alter our destiny. Self-determination is an ostentatious belief that we have the power to make decisions without the interference of outside influences. There are even those that [...]
Points of No Return: On the Loss of My Parents – 11
[Exploring Life] A Journey Into Memory: It has now been nearly two months since my father passed away, and five months since my mother passed away. I am learning more and more about the nature and power of memory; the ways in which I interpret and explore my own memories are changing in response to [...]
Points of No Return: On the Loss of My Parents – 10
[Exploring Life] As We Get Older: Macleans Magazine has published an important article entitled Don’t Seniors Deserve Better? in which Ken McQueen explores the reality of how the elderly are treated in our hospital system. In the years leading up to their deaths, part of the care I provided for my parents was to help [...]
Points of No Return: On the Loss of My Parents – 9
[Exploring Life] An Offering in Memory of My Parents Though you have left us Your presence echoes within the landscape of our souls; Tears caress the beauty of your memory And we know you have been released from darkness and suffering. Your absence presses on our hearts, You touch us gently in spirit. Grief has [...]
Points of No Return: On the Loss of My Parents – 8
[Exploring Life] The Feeling of Death: It seems to me that death leaves an echo within those that survive their loved ones. It is as if a vibration of remembrance stirs within the heart and reverberates feelings of that which can no longer be. The loss of a presence does not result in silence, nor [...]