Weather to Change Course

Noel spoke to June, soft enough so she could make out what he was saying, “Been a best day for me too.” June smiled tenderly, and glanced up into Noel’s eyes for a brief moment. She patted him on his leg. “Never know what a day will bring.” Highway Home As they say a […]

The Heart of the Change Cycles

With each new day the world turns, and all things move, all things change and keep changing, and so time is marked by the hands on a clock and thoughts run through our minds and change comes and things go like tides in the oceans and clouds passing through the sky….always though, is this turning […]

A World of Change

“That everything changes is the basic truth of existence.” Shunryu Suzuki We do great harm to our lives when we surround it with worn out old stories. Nothing stays the same. Things are not fixed but rather in a state of flux. We have a lot of change going on in our world. […]

Changing Saddles

“Let the world do what the world does. I don’t think I’ve ever taken this trail that it hasn’t changed me. Leave in the morning one person, and come back another kind.” June, An old cowgirl from Jiggs, Nevada Highway Home Kicking up some dust on a trail hike can do […]

Operation Sex Change

At moments Noel didn’t know if what he was doing was actually something she wanted. He tried biting her gently, and she cried out for him to stop, and when he did she held him back and would not let him get away. Highway Home In my first novel Highway […]

Change Directions

“Education can direct our attention to faculties of mind, not just facts in memory.” The Mindful Brain, Dan Seigel My smart phone provides access to information I don’t need to carry around in my head. A few years ago I didn’t have a machine on my desk that answered my questions. As […]

Game Changer

“They cannot see themselves well enough to form a true liking and since we automatically fear and dislike strangers, we fear and dislike our stranger-selves.” John Steinbeck From About Ed Ricketts I’ve my own personal theory of the timing of maturity’s arrival. It seems to arrive more often sooner in some […]

Can You Spare Some Change….

In mindful awareness we have the opportunity to get beneath the layers of adaptation and enhance the possibility of change. Dan Seigel from The Mindful Brain All of us have our own story, our own narrative, memories we recall and use to extract lessons to organize our lives. It is common to my experience […]

Change I Can Remember

I am interested in thinking. Cognition is a word used to describe thinking. Metacognition is the process of thinking about our thinking. Dan Siegel a psychiatrist from UCLA has been doing brain scan research. He has been mapping brains of people while they think. We are learning many interesting things about how our minds actually […]