True commitment is to be available to something without any if's & but's, to be available in your purest form. To be available as you are, ensuring you are acting to your fullest capabilities & leaving the outcome to take its own course. It's a complete surrender.In order to be fully committed you have to first accept yourself in your true ...

For the last two Mondays, I've dropped into a local, weekly storytelling workshop.I did it in the way I do many things: with a plan; a goal; an endgame in mind — I want to be better at storytelling. (Because we all could.) I want to be better at identifying and naming and validating my own emotions and experience (ditto.) And then I want to be bett...

For most of my life, I tried to "get back to" an imagined time where I felt like I was at this incredible pinnacle. I can name every point in my life where I felt I'd reached new heights: Summer '93, Summer '96, Summer '98, Summer '00, Summer '02, Spring '08, Fall '10, and a surreal two-year stretch between Summer '14 and Spring '16. At each peak, ...

 The fundamental element of magic is the ability to manifest or sublimate things, whether they're emotions, states of being, people, or the Statue of Liberty. Magic is the art of making things appear or disappear, out of nowhere or into the void.​ One could indeed interpret the wild fusion of disparate ideas and methods into something emotiona...