Holistic Living

I'm sure we all will agree that life is NOT perfect, never has been, never will be. We all have ongoing daily issues that...

Thank you. Thank you for your years of often unnoticed service to our community. Your hard, hard work behind the scenes, of sleepless nights and...

Hello from your fellow journeyer on the so ably steered ship of The Edge for these past 25 years — and proofreader of The...

In 2012, I stayed at a Buddhist temple in Mount Shasta, Calif. There, we took a moment before eating to reflect upon where our...

Why do people do the things they do? Sure, some pray, meditate and love freely, but others stab their brothers, curse their friends, and...

To share a vision of pain is not for everyone, but to share something big with a mission in mind is to pass on...

I often wonder what would happen if I could get myself out of the way and seclude myself like Henry David Thoreau did at...

An excerpt from You Were Not Born to Suffer We are all a bit crazy, in the sense that once we’re honest with ourselves we...

In those silent, but magnificent moments of life — where we are suddenly given a glimpse of something so beautiful that it quiets the...

Never in my life would I ever have thought I’d be grateful for my small, wide, Flintstone feet. Yep, these little piggies shaped like a...

I looked out my window at the tree branches coated in glittering icy crystal from the blizzard that passed through in the dark of...

“The vibration of gratitude attracts more positive things into your life.” – Cherie Roe Dirksen Every morning, I wake up with gratitude. Once I open...

The following Bright Beautiful School of Thought saying shares a very healthful perspective: “If there is a heaven, a ‘key to the universe,’ even...

An article in the San Jose Mercury News was titled “A Bike Ride Stranger Than Fiction.” It told of two young men, twin brothers,...

You may not think you have a core negative belief, but if you’re mysteriously stuck, one or two ideas are probably holding you back...

touchstone  noun 1. an excellent quality used to test genuineness. 2. a stone used to identify something precious. 3. a safe haven, grounding spot. My personal definition of touchstone as a safe haven extends beyond...

We need to examine the spells that hypnotize us and break them when they hinder us. Spells are words, deeds and judgments that go...