The body is a funny fickle machine at times. Like a computer offered the wrong password, the body given too much of something, even a good thing, can simply respond with a big “NO” that lights up a pathway of pain. It’s the body’s way of talking, but many of us refuse to hear the [...]
The young boys in our neighborhood love fireworks, and the best time of year for them is just around the corner. Starting in warm April evenings just after dark, they begin to rehearse with a few repercussive rounds in the park behind our house. Last night, a few went off in the wee hours of [...]
As the day closes down and night whispers its presence, the sky sinks away to reveal its shadow until the morning sun breaks the darkness. I find I not only love the dusk, but the dawn that precedes it, the beginning that marks the end, the alpha that leads the way to omega. It is [...]
Being uncomfortable is part of life. Most of us avoid it, yet it is an important element of our personal growth. If we do not allow ourselves to be uncomfortable we keep the possibilities of our life limited. So often we resist being uncomfortable rather than leaning into it. As Eckhart Tolle says, “What we [...]
I hear his greeting bark through the door before I even put the key to the lock. Rocky, my wonderful lab/chow mix is always found waiting by the door eager to usher me back into the home. I love to hear his woo-woo-woo type barks as his excitement grows with every inch the door opens. [...]
Psychoanalysis, cognitive behavioral therapy, gestalt therapy, and Jungian analysis are a few of the time-tested traditions which are used by clinical psychologists. Among these, cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, has endured the rigors of scientific study to demonstrate effectiveness in targeting the acute symptoms of depression, panic, anxiety, eating disorders, and obsessive compulsive disorder. After [...]
Being an avid hiker and having undertaken many a five day hike through the Andes in Peru, Mt Whitney, Kauai, and Na Pali Coast, and having walked part of the Camino de Santiago trail myself while in Spain last year, I was drawn to the film “Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago. However, hiking [...]
With anticipation of watching the documentary “The Fruit Hunters” by Yung Chang at the Newport Beach Film Festival, I searched the internet for exotic types of fruits I never knew about. I learned that aliens currently inhabit this earth and they come in the form of oddly shaped, comically textured, beautifully (and not so beautifully) [...]
I was born in Hawaii and grew up listening to Hawaiian music, which included lots of ukulele tunes. I even learned how to hula to “Ukulele Lady” as a girl. So when our editor asked me to write about the documentary “Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings” for this special edition of the Indy devoted [...]
My mind has been sputtering lately. Too many things to remember as my feet cross the finish line of another year gone past and 365 more days of life experiences under my belt, all starting to crowd out my brain. I’m finding birthdays are becoming not so welcomed. I am being pushed into the mindset [...]
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