On Passion and Following Your Bliss, March, 2017

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 This is the Call, the Rap and RealTalk about the belief in working hard, earning a living, dis-engagement, misery and the big footprint commute formerly Transforming the American Workplace blog.   In 2011, right after the publication of 16 Mondays, I gave a talk at the Theosophical Society in Manhattan, NYC. There were “4” people …

In Transition

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  Ascension Resurrections Shifts Transformations Personal, Unedited and Uncut musings about whatever I’m living. February 12, 2017 In January, 2017, headed back to the U.S. from Mexico, I arrived in Houston only to discover that my connecting flight to Philly had been cancelled. It was an early flight that would have arrived in the city …

Quotes

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In this culture, the phrase ‘black woman’ is not synonymous with ‘tender’ or ‘gentle.’ It’s as if those words couldn’t possibly speak to the reality of black females. ~ bell hooks, writer, author, feminist and Buddhist  

The Return to Divine Stewardship

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This essay is exploratory, and I am writing it to bring some clarity and focus to my ideas and vision for this section. “The Return to Divine Stewardship” has presented some unlearning challenges for me. I created this section, originally, to present some of our responses to a growing awareness of our relationship, or lack …

Jesuits, 2 Monks, Black Hollyhocks and a Cambodian Wedding

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At heart, we are non-linear beings. To live a life dictated by world logic and linearity is to invite limitation, suffering and imprisonment. Sooner, not later, the soul will seek relief, satisfying its natural desire to live in the consciousness of Love that is its divine birthright.  ~ Akilah I am writing to share what …