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We We We

June 21, 2020

Today is also Father’s Day — and since this month’s heart-centered practice is all about shifting out of me-first, me-centered thinking into we-always heart-centered living Love, I want to share how my dad and I have always been a we and always will be a we. . .and why that even matters.

When I was little, my dad was often away from home. He was lecturing about art, he was buying art for Sears, he was making movies with Roger Corman, he was doing this or that television show, he was working on behalf of the Indian Arts & Crafts Board of the US Department of the Interior, he was on this or that TV show, he was writing books and doing book tours. And none of that mattered, because when he was with me, I felt filled with his presence — the presence of Living Love. And when he wasn’t with me, I carried him in my heart. So I still felt filled with the presence of Living Love.

That taught me that Love is what is always present. And that Love is all that matters.

Clean House

June 6, 2020

Every white person in the world has to keep looking at our histories and our habits and our assumptions and our privilege. We have to keep having the hard conversations and building new coalitions and connections. But we also have to invite Love to the table to transform all of our thoughts and words and actions into heart-centered practices.

In recent years, creating heart-centered practices has healed a lifelong habit of rude and chronic lateness. I was never ever on time — and it infuriated everyone who loved me or who worked with me. I have healed the looming presence of my mother in my life that I used to keep me in cripplingly virulent self-loathing. So I know this stuff works.