• Who You Are
• Teaching, by Kablil Gibran
• Teacher
• Love Revived
• The Spirit of Massage
• Gospel According to You
• Is life without television cruel and unusual punishment?
• Meeting Place
• Breaking the TV Addiction
• TV Fasting
• Love is Here
• It’s Her!
• Love Spawns Miracles
• TV Nights
• Which Path?
• God Listens
• Making A Way
• The Translator
• The Good Dad
• What is Death?
• Parenting Self
• Return to the Light
• Your Guardian Spirit
• Dreambuilder
• Walk the Path
• The Gardener
• Valentine’s Love
• Roses & Rainbows
• The Headache Pebble
• Trust II
• Trust
• Love Lives On
• The Christmas Gift
• Things to Do
• I Am a Healer
• My Imperfect Friend
• Gravedigger
• The Actor Dies
• Birdsong
• Life of Love and Laughter
• Three Inside, Three Outside
• Buzz
• Spiritual Toughness
• The Birthday Race
• Sun of Love
• Drowning
• I’ve Changed
• Your Friend
• The Harvest
• My Dad
• I Found My Friend

Who You Are

I know of your anger
Yet I will not participate
Your tears I can share
But do not commiserate

I know the darkness of fear
Is only the absent of light
I know it’s your soul, not your eyes
That brings you true sight

I know in times of despair
It seems I am so very far
But I am not, I am with you
I just know “Who You Are”

-John Alexander

Teaching, by Kablil Gibran

Then Said a teacher, speak to us of teaching, and he said, no man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith, and his lovingness.
If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

The astronomer may speak to you of his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his understanding.

The musician may sing to you of the rhythm which is in all space, but he cannot give you the ear which arrests the rhythm nor the voice that echoes it.

And he who is versed in the science of numbers can tell the regions of weight and measure, but he cannot conduct you thither.

For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.

And even as each one of you stands alone in God’s knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth.

—Kablil Gibran

Teacher

Wonder and Mystery,
We’ve explored them
Together.

Compassion and Touch,
We’ve witnessed their
Healing.

Movement and Stillpoint,
We’ve met in their
Peace.

Connection and Love,
We embrace them
Forever.

For my teacher Christine Felker, as she departs our county on the next part of her life journey, to Maine. June 13, 2005.

Love Revived

We do so much
To save a body
When the heart stops.

Breathe life.
Pump the heart.
Apply shocking energy.

We won’t stop!
We won’t give up!
We are committed to Life.

What can we do
To save a marriage
When the heart breaks?

Breathe life.
Heal the heart.
Give all the energy we have.

We won’t stop!
We won’t give up!
We are committed to Love.

This day we honor
Your Love Revived.
May it live well and stay strong
Forever…

For our friends on the renewal of their marriage vows… December 14, 2004

The Spirit of Massage

Perceive with the mind,
Open and willing,
Answering God’s call.

Listen with the heart,
Sensitive and alert,
Hearing God’s direction.

Touch with the hands,
Respectful and present,
Sharing God’s light.

Know with the soul,
Honored and humble,
Doing God’s work.

Rejoice in the partnership,
Blessed and eternal,
Knowing God’s love.

Gospel According to You

[Christian Science Monitor ]http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1119/p18s01-hfcs.html]

Men read and admire the Gospel of Christ
With its love so unfailing and true.
But what do they say and what do they think
Of the Gospel according to you?
You are writing each day a letter to men -
Take care that the writing is true;
‘Tis the only Gospel that some men will read,
That Gospel according to you.

Is life without television cruel and unusual punishment?

A 60-year-old man was sentenced to house arrest without television “in order that he have ample opportunity to reflect on the ways of harm he has brought to his family.” The defendant was willing to go for the deal rather than face prison, but his lawyers were outraged. “Given the state of the world and these dangerous and uncertain times, television is the primary way we get news,” his attorney explained. The defendant’s wife agreed: “A television is sort of like your umbilical cord to life,” she said. [via EarlyToRise]

Without the TV, my wife and son are reading like mad. They are staying up to all hours reading, and are sometimes totally zonked the next day. That’s the problem with a good book; it has a pause but you are not forced to wait until the next episode to see what happens. I’ve been reading to the kids nearly an hour a night, too.

I still spend too much time lusting over a Hitachi 53SWX12B 53” Digital 16:9 HDTV Monitor/Projection Television with anti-reflective screen. BUT! I’ve committed to waiting until my birthday to re-consider purchase. Or at least near my birthday. Or at least in the same year as my birthday. Yeah, it one of those kinds of commitments.