I work full time at Boise State University and I am a student there as well.  In other words, I spend a lot of time on campus. Which I love, don’t get me wrong.  One of the things I like most about that is there is always something going on. Yesterday, on my lunch hour,  I went to a lecture by Dr. Olga Goulko entitled Colloidal Crystals, Quasicrystals, Fluid-Fluid Transitions, and the Entropic Bond.  I found myself in a strange new world called the, “Engineering Building”. Even the people seated in the auditorium had a distinct energy that I had never been in before.  Physically, there were hardly any similarities in the group. All ages, maybe a fifth of them were women, and every kind of dress and walk of life you could imagine. I didn’t hardly understand a word that was said, but during the question and answer period after the presentation it was evident that the audience knew exactly what she had said.  Was I the only one that was completely lost? ...

The unwinding has begun.  Ancient chains unbound.

Assignment from my Globalization 420 class. I timidly walked up to the counter and asked, “Tiene huevos”?  The man I spoke to looked horrified and I immediately felt sick and wondered what I had said to so offend him.  It was my first week in Barquisimeto, Venezuela where I lived in the early 80s. As it turns out, when you want to buy eggs, you don’t ask, “Do you have eggs”?  You should say, “Are there eggs”? I had just asked this man if he had ovaries. Living in Venezuela in my early twenties was my first real experience with cultural differences. Even though the people I met there were wonderful (some are still friends to this day), it was a shocking realization for me to see how very different that culture was from mine. In the article, "Culture and Globalization" by the Suny Levin Institute it states, "The fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among human kind and th...

I frequently listen to recorded books.  Last week I was browsing for a new book to “read” when Spirit lead me to Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer.  I had just listened to another book of hers called, Braiding Sweetgrass. This is an excellent book that I recommend. I particularly like the concept of the Honorable Harvest.   Kimmerer speaking on the Honorable Harvest I’ll admit that I was confused when Spirit dropped the Gathering Moss book in my lap and said, “This is next.”  Kimmerer’s first book was a no-brainer as I have a long and loving connection with sweetgrass which I use for prayer and ceremony, but moss?  Frankly, I’d never really thought about moss other than, “Don’t slip on it when you’re hiking.” Yep, that was the extent of my relationship with moss.   Kimmmerer, who is a scientist, has an amazing way of bringing science and Spirit together. She reveals that nature is not ...

As words come tumbling out of my mouth with rote and certainty, I ask myself, “Whose words are those?”  Whose voice is in my head that demands absolute obedience to that statement? Horrified, I realized that sure enough, the voice is not my own.  Rather, it belongs to various authority figures of my past. “Horrified” because those people were abusers or those with belief systems I can no longer abide.  How to combat such a conundrum? I question and examine and investigate. What is truth? Who says so and why? If I’m listening to a voice (new or old) I scrutinize the speaker.  Are they kind? Are they knowledgeable on the subject on which they speak? Have they given me advice in the past, and how did that turn out? I look back and I look at outcome. It so clearly tells me who to listen to and who to trust.   

This is the card I drew during my morning meditation.  I was pondering last night and wondering, "What is the best thing about me?"  The first thought that came into my mind is that I always try to live authentically.  And now this.  Boom! Colette Baron-Reid Wisdom of the Oracle Divination Cards When you act in an authentic way, you command the world to reflect back to you exactly what is in your highest good.  Your business choices, the investments you make, and the creative projects you immerse yourself in are powerfully on-point.  Why?  Because when you are fully yourself, radically accepting everything in your journey to date - both successes and failures - you will see the divinity in all things.  Abundance is a natural progression when you experience this kind of authenticity. 

 This is an assignment for my online Ethics 430 class this semester.  We were to comment on our group project we just turned in. I have participated in many group projects both in school and professionally.  I know this process can be frustrating and I hear many students complain about it.  Sometimes I’m one of them. But honestly, these are skills we need in the workplace.  The biggest difficulty we had in our group was lack of communication. In a group project, communication is everything.  Especially when we are meeting online. Without the non verbal cues, it’s so easy to misunderstand something. That’s why I feel strongly that at least in the beginning, there needs to be real time voice interaction.  And preferably throughout the project as well. Voice interaction helps to cut down on the misunderstandings. And it’s much more time efficient when problem solving. Plus you get to know each other better which should be one of the perks. ...